Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
I'm worried about:
- boot guest using local apic timer
- reset
- boot with pit timer
- a zillion interrupts
So at the very least, we need a limiter.
Or have a new notifier on kvm_pic_reset, instead of simply acking one
pending irq? That seems the appropriate place to zero the counter.
Clearing the counter on reset is good, but it doesn't solve the
underlying problem, which is that there are two separate cases that
appear to the host as the same thing:
- guest masks irqs, does a lot of work, unmasks irqs
- host deschedules guest, does a lot of work, reschedules guest
Right now we assume any missed interrupts are due to host load. In the
reboot case, that's clearly wrong, but that is only an example. Maybe
we can use preempt notifiers to detect whether the timer tick happened
while the guest was scheduled or not.
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