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2015-12-01Merge "Make vfio MSI interrupt be non-threaded."Don Dugger1-1/+1
2015-11-24Make vfio MSI interrupt be non-threaded.Yunhong Jiang1-1/+1
Currently the vfio msi interrupt is kept as IRQ thread, this is not good for NFV scenerio because in NFV scenerio, we want to inject the interrupt to the guest asap. A threaded IRQ introduces schedule latency. However, this change is like a quick and dirty and may bring potential deadlock, because the spinlock_irqsave() from eventfd_signal() is preemptible in RT kernel, which should not be held on IRQ context. But changing it to be raw_spinlock is bad because it will increase the latency a lot if the eventfd is accessed by user space. The deadlock should be ok since for vfio MSI handler is purely kernel story and the lock is a per-eventfd lock and seems no one else is using it for the vfio msi scenario. Upstream status: discussion https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/26/764 Change-Id: Ie4405a5b568aa75ca8c3481eeeea228a486b9794
2015-11-20Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magicYunhong Jiang2-44/+31
This is a backporting from upstream linux, please refer to http://marc.info/?t=142904577100001&r=1&w=2 for more information, the corresponding kernel commit is 0ff53d09642204c64842 (tick: sched: Force tick interrupt and get rid of softirq magic). The purpose of this patch is, if a tick_sched interrupt is missed, don't try to raise softirq, instead, we can simply trigger the timer interrupt. The reason is, softirq requires context switch and has much higher overhead than interrupt. Upstream status: backport 0ff53d09642204c64842 Change-Id: I70131fb85189d15972fcaa1a2a2fa190270787f9 Back-port-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@linux.intel.com>
2015-11-17Fix systemd boot.José Pekkarinen1-1/+1
Change-Id: I3e91161abafc62554e793e4851df639c099421e7 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
2015-11-17Update the kernel config to match the kernel version shipped.José Pekkarinen1-1/+2
Change-Id: Icd51e1625a57867b2f79cb2b2d1ab21b23bd80e0 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
2015-11-03Merge "Add the opnfv kernel config file"Don Dugger1-0/+3741
2015-10-29Add the opnfv kernel config fileYunhong Jiang1-0/+3741
Kernel config is important for RT linux. A specific config file is provided for the opnfv project to build the reference config options. Currently this config file is assumed to be used for both host and guest kernel. We may split them in future. Change-Id: Ia9ebe0bc002518bb603af8901c6f31531d2f0cee Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
2015-10-19These changes are a raw update to a vanilla kernel 4.1.10, with theJosé Pekkarinen343-1508/+3092
recently announced rt patch patch-4.1.10-rt10.patch. No further changes needed. Change-Id: I9a0cf084498133b10771e744b6da4b29dff706ba Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
2015-10-09Kernel bump from 4.1.3-rt to 4.1.7-rt.José Pekkarinen628-4568/+6245
These changes brings a vanilla kernel from kernel.org, and the patch applied for rt is patch-4.1.7-rt8.patch. No further changes needed. Change-Id: Id8dd03c2ddd971e4d1d69b905f3069737053b700 Signed-off-by: José Pekkarinen <jose.pekkarinen@nokia.com>
2015-08-04Add the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as baseYunhong Jiang49465-0/+19519726
Import the rt linux 4.1.3-rt3 as OPNFV kvm base. It's from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-rt-devel.git linux-4.1.y-rt and the base is: commit 0917f823c59692d751951bf5ea699a2d1e2f26a2 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Date: Sat Jul 25 12:13:34 2015 +0200 Prepare v4.1.3-rt3 Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> We lose all the git history this way and it's not good. We should apply another opnfv project repo in future. Change-Id: I87543d81c9df70d99c5001fbdf646b202c19f423 Signed-off-by: Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>