Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] Introduce a workqueue to deliver PIT timer interrupts.

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On 04/17/2012 03:03 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > 
> > KVM_MAX_VCPUS.
> > 
> Ah, so you are worried about malicious guest configuring pit to
> broadcast to all its vcpus.

Yes - it can introduce huge amounts of latency this way which is exactly
what Jan is trying to prevent.

Though I'm not sure spin_lock_irq() in the realtime tree actually
disables irqs (but it's certainly not a good idea in mainline; it's
nasty even with just the spinlock).

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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