From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:14:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5089656A.9010704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121024005017.GA17834@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>
Il 24/10/2012 02:50, Paul Mackerras ha scritto:
> So we could indeed use the existing KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP to tell KVM to
> create a presentation controller per vcpu. But then how do we tell
> KVM how many source controllers we want and how many interrupts each
> source controller should handle? The source controllers are not tied
> to any particular vcpu, and a source controller could potentially have
> 100s of interrupts or more (particularly with MSIs). Configuration of
> each source fits into 64 bits, so if we tried to use KVM_SET_IRQCHIP
> for configuring a source controller we'd be limited to 64 interrupts
> per source controller.
As Jan said, there's more than a few similarities between the x86 and
PPC model.
Taking inspiration from the x86 API, configuring the source controller
seems to be more of a task for KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING (a very x86-centric
name, I must admit).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1350173065-35350-1-git-send-email-c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>
2012-10-17 20:38 ` [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses Alexander Graf
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 22:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-17 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 13:48 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-18 15:25 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-23 10:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 10:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:04 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-24 0:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-25 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2012-10-25 16:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 18:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 9:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:09 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 12:08 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 12:41 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:17 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 12:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-27 8:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-27 10:01 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-28 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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