Re: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/kvm: Enable running guests on RT Linux

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Feb 25 2015 - 11:37:09 EST


* Scott Wood | 2015-02-23 17:27:31 [-0600]:

>This isn't a host PIC driver. It's guest PIC emulation, some of which
>is indeed not suitable for a rawlock (in particular, openpic_update_irq
>which loops on the number of vcpus, with a loop body that calls
>IRQ_check() which loops over all pending IRQs). The vcpu limits are a
>temporary bandaid to avoid the worst latencies, but I'm still skeptical
>about this being upstream material.

Okay.

>-Scott

Sebastian
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