kvm: x86: avoid atomic operations on APICv vmentry

On some benchmarks (e.g. netperf with ioeventfd disabled), APICv
posted interrupts turn out to be slower than interrupt injection via
KVM_REQ_EVENT.

This patch optimizes a bit the IRR update, avoiding expensive atomic
operations in the common case where PI.ON=0 at vmentry or the PIR vector
is mostly zero.  This saves at least 20 cycles (1%) per vmexit, as
measured by kvm-unit-tests' inl_from_qemu test (20 runs):

              | enable_apicv=1  |  enable_apicv=0
              | mean     stdev  |  mean     stdev
    ----------|-----------------|------------------
    before    | 5826     32.65  |  5765     47.09
    after     | 5809     43.42  |  5777     77.02

Of course, any change in the right column is just placebo effect. :)
The savings are bigger if interrupts are frequent.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

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