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From: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:42:53 +0800
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On Wednesday 24 September 2008 16:34:22 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
> scenario.  I won't push device assignment for 2.6.28 without it.
>
> Shared host interrupts are a different matter; which one did you mean?
>

Got confused...

I think we are talking about share host interrupts, that is pre-assigned 
device shared IRQ with other devices. 

Why share guest interrupts is a prerequisite... 

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regards
Yang, Sheng