Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: msi irq allocation api

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 08:21:01PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 5/20/09, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> > define api for allocating/setting up msi-x irqs, and for updating them
> >  with msi-x vector information, supply implementation in ioapic. Please
> >  comment on this API: I intend to port my msi-x patch to work on top of
> >  it.
> >
> >  Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> Sparc64 also uses packets ("mondos", not implemented yet) for
> interrupt vector data, there the packet size is 8 * 64 bits.
> I think we should aim for a more generic API that covers this case also.

Are you sure this is a good idea? MSI is tied to PCI, and PCI only has
MSI, not "mondos". What code would benefit from this abstraction?

> For example, irq.c could support opaque packet payload of
> unspecified/predefined size.  MSI packet structure should be defined
> in ioapic.c.

Note that MSI does not have packets and MSI interrupts do not pass any payload.

> The pci_msi_ops structure could be 'const', or do you expect it to
> change during execution?

Right. I'll fix that.

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MST