From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Remaining passthrough/VT-d tasks list Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:38:35 +0300 Message-ID: <48D9FC8B.2040902@redhat.com> References: <0122C7C995D32147B66BF4F440D3016301C49E61@pdsmsx415.ccr.corp.intel.com> <200809241431.13571.sheng.yang@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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: "Yang, Sheng" Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48603 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750968AbYIXIjs (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:39:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200809241431.13571.sheng.yang@intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function