From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tgh Subject: about eventchannel Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:41:47 +0800 Message-ID: <45C0645B.1070808@ncic.ac.cn> References: <200701301624.l0UGOJuF027110@latara.uk.xensource.com> <1170224401.10792.116.camel@bling> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1170224401.10792.116.camel@bling> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi I try to understand the eventchannel part, and I am confused by the differences of the physical IRQ line ,virtual IRQ line and virtual IPI line for a vm , what do the physical IRQ line and virtual IRQ line mean for? Every vm has one or some vcpu ,then virtual IRQ line may be related with one of these vcpu , then what is the physical IRQ line for? I am really confused with it could someone give me help Thanks in advance