From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:46:01 +0300 Message-ID: <48DA0C59.5060002@redhat.com> References: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301C49E61@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <48D9FB8E.9060505@redhat.com> <200809241510.52470.amit.shah@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Han, Weidong" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, benami@il.ibm.com, muli@il.ibm.com, "Kay, Allen M" , "Yang, Sheng" , "Zhang, Xiantao" To: Amit Shah Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58893 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751652AbYIXJru (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:47:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200809241510.52470.amit.shah@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Amit Shah wrote: > * 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. > That's what I meant about a benchmark scenario. A couple of virtio disks and a virtual nic for management and you've got a broken guest. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function