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Description of problem:

The realtime-virtual-host profile doesn't have sysctl kernel.migration set, as a result if the thread running on a RT CPU starts a (non-irq-context) timer, the timer will probably interrupt the running thread as opposed to being migrated to a housekeeping CPU.

This is probably not as serious as it seems, since the RT apps expected to run in KVM-RT don't start such timers. But this is impacting tscdeadline_latency when activating the profile, since QEMU starts such a timer for a brief period of time.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tuned-2.9.0-1.el7.noarch

Created attachment 1405399 [details]
add kernel.timer_migration 1 to KVM-RT profiles

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