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

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy at linutronix.de
Thu Feb 26 03:36:49 AEDT 2015


* 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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