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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: IRQ SMP affinity problems in domU with vcpus > 4
	on	HP ProLiant G6 with dual Xeon 5540 (Nehalem)
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:11:34 -0700
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On 10/21/09 23:25, Keir Fraser wrote:
> In general, having qemu make pci updates via the cf8/cfc method is clearly
> unsafe, and cannot be made safe. I would certainly be happy to see some of
> the low-level PCI management pushed into pciback (and/or pci-stub, depending
> on whether pciback is to be ported to pv_ops).
>   

I've got Konrad's forward-port of pciback in xen/master at the moment.

    J