From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch -rt 2/2] KVM: lapic: mark LAPIC timer handler as
 irqsafe
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:24:14 +0100 (CET)
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Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 12:21 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Since lapic timer handler only wakes up a simple waitqueue,
> > it can be executed from hardirq context.
> > 
> > Reduces average cyclictest latency by 3us.
> 
> Can this patch be merged in the KVM tree, and go
> upstream via Paolo?

Not really as it has RT dependencies ....

Thanks,

	tglx