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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:10:52 +0530
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* On Wednesday 24 Sep 2008 14:04:22 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Han, Weidong wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The initial passthrough/VT-d patches have been in kvm, it's time to
> > enhance it, and push them into 2.6.28.
> >
> > 	- Shared Interrupt support
>
> Shared guest interrupts is a prerequisite for merging into mainline.
> Without this, device assignment is useless in anything but a benchmark

It's not that bad. A standard qemu guest has enough free irqs to manage an 
extra device and still not share any irqs.

> scenario.  I won't push device assignment for 2.6.28 without it.
>
> Shared host interrupts are a different matter; which one did you mean?

I'm sure he meant shared host interrupts.