Re: Remove APIC lock

Avi Kivity
2007-09-03T13:48:34Z

Dong, Eddie wrote:
> Avi:
>
> apic->lock is used in many place to avoid race condition with apic
> timer call back
> function which may run on different pCPU. This patch migrate the
> apic timer to
> same CPU with the one VP runs on, thus the lock is no longer
> necessary.
>
> thx,eddie
>
>

This is now applied into a new branch lapic6. I split into removal of
the lock, removal of kvm_lapic_get_regs(), and timer migration.
Eventually the first two will be folded into preceding patches. Please
separate patches in the future.

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