Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Run PIT work in own kthread

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-04-17 12:27, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 09:26 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> We can't run PIT IRQ injection work in the interrupt context of the host
>> timer. This would allow the user to influence the handler complexity by
>> asking for a broadcast to a large number of VCPUs. Therefore, this work
>> was pushed into workqueue context in 9d244caf2e. However, this prevents
>> prioritizing the PIT injection over other task as workqueues share
>> kernel threads.
>>
>> This replaces the workqueue with a kthread worker and gives that thread
>> a name in the format "kvm-pit/<owner-process-pid>". That allows to
>> identify and adjust the kthread priority according to the VM process
>> parameters.
> 
> Is this a new ABI?

Yep. Scripts will use it, maybe even QEMU. Do you want this to appear in
api.txt?

> 
> Patch looks reasonable.
> 

Jan

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