Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Avoid busy loops over uninjectable pending APIC timers

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On 2013-03-17 09:47, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 09:49:07PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> If the guest didn't take the last APIC timer interrupt yet and generates
>> another one on top, e.g. via periodic mode, we do not block the VCPU
>> even if the guest state is halted. The reason is that
>> apic_has_pending_timer continues to return a non-zero value.
>>
>> Fix this busy loop by taking the IRR content for the LVT vector in
>> apic_has_pending_timer into account.
>>
> Just drop coalescing tacking for lapic interrupt. After posted interrupt
> will be merged __apic_accept_irq() will not longer return coalescing
> information, so the code will be dead anyway.

That requires the RTC decoalescing series to go first to avoid a
regression, no? Then let's postpone this topic for now.

Jan


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