From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [patch -rt 2/2] KVM: lapic: mark LAPIC timer handler as irqsafe Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:23:54 -0500 Message-ID: <54B6B43A.9070506@redhat.com> References: <20150114171251.882318257@redhat.com> <20150114171459.694888126@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Luiz Capitulino , Steven Rostedt , Thomas Gleixner , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini To: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:50173 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751343AbbANSX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:23:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150114171459.694888126@redhat.com> Sender: linux-rt-users-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/14/2015 12:12 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. > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Acked-by: Rik van Riel