On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:42:31PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 04/17/2012 01:31 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 01:29:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > On 04/17/2012 01:26 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > > > It isn't, since you need to send an IPI.
> > > > >
> > > > That is exactly what I forget whether you can send IPI from there :)
> > > > Anyway this is another reason.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Actually I was wrong. You can't smp_call_function_single() from irq
> > > context (deadlocks if two vcpus do that), but we send a reschedule
> > > interrupt. So it should work.
> > >
> > Ah, good point. So if we'll use irqsave versions of spinlocks we can
> > drop kthread?
>
> Do we want 254 IPIs to be issued from irq context? Could be slow.
>
Where this number is coming from?
> We can make the unicast case run from irq context and defer the
> multicast to a thread.
>
We do not know if gsi is multicasted in the pit code though.
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Gleb.
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