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Performance - PIC vs I/O APIC?

Posted: 13. Oct 2009, 05:20
by NeBlackCat
The manual says (albeit more mildly than before!) that turning on the I/O APIC has a virtualization overhead, and I was just wondering if anyone had ever tested and quantified this - is it 1%, 5%, 2000%, what?