From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pugs@cisco.com,
chrisw@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] QEMU VFIO device assignment
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:03:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100712110312.GA25835@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3AB652.4000106@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:29:38AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 11:24 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >
> >One other thing to be aware of is that vfio requires devices to be
> >PCI-2.3 compliant in order to support DisINTx. This allows vfio to
> >support devices making use of shared INTx interrupts, but excludes older
> >devices that users maybe managed to get assigned to an exclusive
> >interrupt for kvm style assignment.
> >
> >I suppose we might be able to make vfio work with either pci 2.3 devices
> >or older devices with exclusive interrupts if that ends up affecting
> >many users.
>
> PCI 2.3 is already old enough (6-7 years?)
I believe it was made a standard in 2002.
> that I believe we can require it.
>
> --
> I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
> signature is too narrow to contain.
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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: chrisw@redhat.com, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, pugs@cisco.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] QEMU VFIO device assignment
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:03:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100712110312.GA25835@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C3AB652.4000106@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:29:38AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 11:24 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >
> >One other thing to be aware of is that vfio requires devices to be
> >PCI-2.3 compliant in order to support DisINTx. This allows vfio to
> >support devices making use of shared INTx interrupts, but excludes older
> >devices that users maybe managed to get assigned to an exclusive
> >interrupt for kvm style assignment.
> >
> >I suppose we might be able to make vfio work with either pci 2.3 devices
> >or older devices with exclusive interrupts if that ends up affecting
> >many users.
>
> PCI 2.3 is already old enough (6-7 years?)
I believe it was made a standard in 2002.
> that I believe we can require it.
>
> --
> I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
> signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-12 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-11 18:09 [RFC PATCH 0/5] QEMU VFIO device assignment Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] qemu_ram_map/unmap: Allow pre-allocated space to be mapped Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] Minimal RAM API support Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:18 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:20 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:20 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:24 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] RAM API: Make use of it for x86 PC Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] APIC/IOAPIC EOI callback Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:14 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:26 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 19:21 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 19:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 19:23 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 20:03 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 20:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 20:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 20:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 20:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 20:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-07-11 21:59 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-12 6:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 6:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 9:05 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-12 9:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
2010-07-12 9:13 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 9:13 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] VFIO based device assignment Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:27 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 19:38 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 19:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-12 6:37 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 6:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:17 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] QEMU VFIO " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:37 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:37 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 18:43 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 18:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-11 20:24 ` Alex Williamson
2010-07-11 20:24 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Williamson
2010-07-12 6:29 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 6:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2010-07-12 11:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2010-07-12 11:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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