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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:06:03 +0100
From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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On 27/02/2015 02:05, Scott Wood wrote:
> Obviously leaving it in a buggy state is not what we want -- but I lean
> towards a short term "fix" of putting "depends on !PREEMPT_RT" on the
> in-kernel MPIC emulation (which is itself just an optimization -- you
> can still use KVM without it).  This way people don't enable it with RT
> without being aware of the issue, and there's more of an incentive to
> fix it properly.

That would indeed work for me.

Paolo
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