From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kvm: fix spurious interrupt with irqfd
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:09:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B571CAC.9000902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100120145822.GB3434@redhat.com>
On 01/20/2010 04:58 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
>> I'm uncomfortable with pushing Davide's patch into stable and possibly
>> causing regressions with unrelated applications. Can't a guest live
>> with a spurious interrupt?
>>
> Well guests mask/unmask vector on each interrupt, so this will trigger
> an irq storm I think.
>
>
>> It's not like they're unknown.
>>
> Depends on the device really.
> In theory, if they trigger at an unfortunate time this could cause
> crashes.
>
>
I'd like confirmation on both of these before I push things to stable.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-20 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 17:12 [PATCH 0/2] kvm: fix spurious interrupt with irqfd Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-17 12:42 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-19 14:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-20 14:10 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-20 14:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-20 15:09 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-20 15:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-20 17:19 ` Davide Libenzi
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