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From:   Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 05:20:37PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 02:57, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Certain workloads perform poorly on KVM compared to baremetal
> > due to baremetal's ability to perform mwait on NEED_RESCHED
> > bit of task flags (therefore skipping the IPI).
> 
> KVM supports expose mwait to the guest, if it can solve this?
> 
> Regards,
> Wanpeng Li

Unfortunately mwait in guest is not feasible (uncompatible with multiple
guests). Checking whether a paravirt solution is possible.