linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] KVM: LAPIC: Make lapic timer unpinned

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:38:27 +0800
From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@...il.com>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] KVM: LAPIC: Make lapic timer unpinned

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 19:48, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 07:24:43PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>
> >
> > Make lapic timer unpinned when timer is injected by posted-interrupt,
>
> It has nothing to do with PI, yet?
>
> And, how about mentioning 61abdbe0bc and telling that this could be
> another solution for that problem (but will be used in follow up
> patches)?
>
> > the emulated timer can be offload to the housekeeping cpus, kick after
> > setting the pending timer request as alternative to commit 61abdbe0bcc.

Yeah, the patch description needs to rework. Thank you.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li