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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Yang Zhang <yang.zhang.wz@gmail.com>,
	"Lan, Tianyu" <tianyu.lan@intel.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	gleb@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Enable more than 255 VCPU support without irq remapping function in the guest
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:32:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160428153251.GA17368@potion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5721B394.9050008@siemens.com>

2016-04-28 08:54+0200, Jan Kiszka:
> On 2016-04-28 03:11, Yang Zhang wrote:
>> On 2016/4/27 17:45, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> On 2016-04-27 11:39, Yang Zhang wrote:
>>>> I mean in Tianyu's case, if he doesn't care about to deliver external
>>>> interrupt to CPU >255, IR is not required.
>>>
>>> What matters is the guest OS. See my other reply on this why this
>>> doesn't work, even for Linux.
>> 
>> Since there only few devices in his case, set the irq affinity manually
>> is enough.

You could configure non-IPIs to work, but we want to create options that
are hard to break.

> Ah, wait - are we talking about emulating the Xeon Phi architecture in
> QEMU, accelerated by KVM?

Knights Landing will also be manufactured as a CPU, hopefully without
many peculiarities.

I think we are talking about extending KVM's IR-less x2APIC, when
standard x2APIC is the future.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-28 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26 16:14 Enable more than 255 VCPU support without irq remapping function in the guest Lan, Tianyu
2016-04-26 16:17 ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-26 16:49   ` Radim Krčmář
2016-04-27  4:10     ` Yang Zhang
2016-04-27  5:24       ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-27  6:24         ` Lan Tianyu
2016-04-27  6:56           ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-27  9:39         ` Yang Zhang
2016-04-27  9:45           ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-28  1:11             ` Yang Zhang
2016-04-28  6:54               ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-28 15:32                 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2016-04-29  2:09                   ` Yang Zhang
2016-04-29  3:01                     ` Nadav Amit
2016-05-03  1:34                       ` Yang Zhang
2016-04-29  4:59                     ` Jan Kiszka
2016-05-03  1:52                       ` Yang Zhang
2016-05-03  2:03                         ` Nadav Amit
2016-05-03  4:55                           ` Jan Kiszka
2016-05-04  1:46                             ` Yang Zhang
2016-05-04  1:56                               ` Nadav Amit
2016-05-04  5:38                               ` Jan Kiszka
2016-04-27  5:39     ` Lan Tianyu
2016-04-27 14:38       ` Radim Krčmář
2016-04-27  5:15   ` Lan Tianyu

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