From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Yang, Sheng" Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:46:36 +0800 Message-ID: <200809241646.37590.sheng.yang@intel.com> References: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301C49E61@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <200809241431.13571.sheng.yang@intel.com> <48D9FC8B.2040902@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Han, Weidong" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , Amit Shah , "benami@il.ibm.com" , "muli@il.ibm.com" , "Kay, Allen M" , "Zhang, Xiantao" To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:26198 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751452AbYIXIqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:46:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48D9FC8B.2040902@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wednesday 24 September 2008 16:38:35 Avi Kivity wrote: > Yang, Sheng wrote: > >> - MSI support (WIP) > >> - MTRR/PAT support of EPT (WIP) > >> - MTRR/PAT support of shadow (WIP) > >> - Basic FLR support (WIP) > > > > Above four are my works. All of them work now. But more job should be > > done to polish the patches. And the main part of Function Level Reset > > would be picked by linux-pci. > > > > Another thing is we would send out/update above patches before Sept. 28, > > and hope they can picked by 2.6.28 merge window. > > > > Avi, what's your opinion? Of course we would work hard. :) But what's the > > deadline of merge window? > > No one knows, but it's very unlikely these features will make it for > 2.6.28. To be merged, it is not sufficient for the patches to be > ready. They have to undergo some testing in the field. ...... > >> - Shared Interrupt support > > > > I still don't know who would do this. It's very important for VT-d real > > usable. If nobody interested in it, I would pick it up, but after Oct. 6 > > (after National Holiday in China). > > Shared host interrupts? What's your plan here? The polarity trick? > Yeah, share host interrupts. But haven't got the very clear idea yet. -- regards Yang, Sheng