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? Patch looks reasonable. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html