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SubjectRe: [patch 11/12] hrtimer: Prepare support for PREEMPT_RT
On Sun, 28 Jul 2019 11:06:50 +0200
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:

> In case we'd want to change that I'd rather not special case timers, but
> apply a more general solution to the quite large amount of similar
> cases: I assume the majority of cpu_relax() uses are affected, so adding
> a paravirt op cpu_relax() might be appropriate.
>
> That could be put under CONFIG_PARAVIRT_SPINLOCK. If called in a guest
> it could ask the hypervisor to give up the physical cpu voluntarily
> (in Xen this would be a "yield" hypercall).

Seems paravirt wants our cpu_chill() ;-)

-- Steve

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