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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] powerpc/kvm: Enable running guests on RT Linux
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:36:49 +0100
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* 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