KVM: Get rid of KVM_REQ_KICK

KVM_REQ_KICK poisons vcpu->requests by having a bit set during normal
operation.  This causes the fast path check for a clear vcpu->requests
to fail all the time, triggering tons of atomic operations.

Fix by replacing KVM_REQ_KICK with a vcpu->guest_mode atomic.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index a0e019769f5d..2c62319727ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ struct kvm_vcpu {
         int vcpu_id;
         struct mutex mutex;
         int   cpu;
+        atomic_t guest_mode;
         struct kvm_run *run;
         unsigned long requests;
         unsigned long guest_debug;