Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

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?

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