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From:   Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:38:27 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] KVM: LAPIC: Make lapic timer unpinned
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 19:48, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 07:24:43PM +0800, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
> >
> > Make lapic timer unpinned when timer is injected by posted-interrupt,
>
> It has nothing to do with PI, yet?
>
> And, how about mentioning 61abdbe0bc and telling that this could be
> another solution for that problem (but will be used in follow up
> patches)?
>
> > the emulated timer can be offload to the housekeeping cpus, kick after
> > setting the pending timer request as alternative to commit 61abdbe0bcc.

Yeah, the patch description needs to rework. Thank you.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li