Thread (26 messages) 26 messages, 9 authors, 2015-08-17

Re: [patch -rt 1/2] KVM: use simple waitqueue for vcpu->wq

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2015-08-07 16:41:41
Also in: kvm, lkml

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 01:14:15PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On that, we cannot convert completions to swait. Because swait wake_all
must not happen from IRQ context, and complete_all() typically is used
from just that.
If swait queues aren't useable from IRQ context they will be fairly
useless.  What's the problem with making them irq safe?
Keyboard shortcuts
hback out one level
jnext message in thread
kprevious message in thread
ldrill in
Escclose help / fold thread tree
?toggle this help