Re: [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:46:13PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>   
>> IMO the only reasonable solution is to disallow interrupt forwarding
>> with shared irqs.  If someone later comes up with a bright idea, we can
>> implement it.  Otherwise the problem will solve itself with hardware
>> moving to msi.
>>     
>
> Disallowing shared IRQs means disallowing PCI devices in general, so now
> you are back to ISA only devices, which it sounds like were the only
> things already allowed by vm86 or whatever it was for passing through.
>
>   

No, it means disallowing pci devices that use shared irqs, and allowing 
pci devices that use non-shared irqs.

> Certainly does appear to have potential though for allowing more
> interesting virtual machines.
>   

IMO pass-through is counter to most of the benefits of virtualization.  
But users seem to want it.

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