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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/8] virtio: add guest MSI-X support
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:47:14 +0300
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Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> That saves us the new API (at the expense of a lot more code, but with  
>> added flexibility).
>>     
>
> So we'll probably need to rename request_vqs to request_vectors,
> but we probably still need the driver to pass the number of
> vectors it wants to the transport. Right?
>
>   

I don't think so - virtio will provide the number of interrupts it 
supports, and virtio-net will tell it to bind ring X to interrupt Y.

-- 
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