Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Convert openpic lock to raw_spinlock

2014-09-12 Thread Scott Wood
On Fri, 2014-09-12 at 09:12 -0500, Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 wrote: -Original Message- From: Wood Scott-B07421 Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:19 PM To: Purcareata Bogdan-B43198 Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; k...@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Convert openpic

[PATCH] KVM: PPC: Convert openpic lock to raw_spinlock

2014-09-11 Thread Bogdan Purcareata
This patch enables running intensive I/O workloads, e.g. netperf, in a guest deployed on a RT host. No change for !RT kernels. The openpic spinlock becomes a sleeping mutex on a RT system. This no longer guarantees that EPR is atomic with exception delivery. The guest VCPU thread fails due to a

Re: [PATCH] KVM: PPC: Convert openpic lock to raw_spinlock

2014-09-11 Thread Scott Wood
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 15:25 -0400, Bogdan Purcareata wrote: This patch enables running intensive I/O workloads, e.g. netperf, in a guest deployed on a RT host. No change for !RT kernels. The openpic spinlock becomes a sleeping mutex on a RT system. This no longer guarantees that EPR is