From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Haskins Subject: Re: KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR and KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY should support MSI? Date: Tue, 05 May 2009 07:29:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4A00230A.70607@gmail.com> References: <20090505103028.GA15418@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigC177E8CF08837F12EF169258" Cc: Sheng Yang , Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , Matthew Wilcox , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f133.google.com ([209.85.221.133]:54475 "EHLO mail-qy0-f133.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752588AbZEELgM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2009 07:36:12 -0400 Received: by qyk39 with SMTP id 39so1221601qyk.33 for ; Tue, 05 May 2009 04:36:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090505103028.GA15418@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigC177E8CF08837F12EF169258 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > The new KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_NR and KVM_ASSIGN_SET_MSIX_ENTRY ioctls hav= e > been merged for 2.6.30. However, I note that PCI spec allows devices to= > support multiple vectors with MSI as well (support will be in linux > 2.6.30). > > Even though qemu for now only uses a single vector with MSI, it would > seem that it's better to make the kernel/user interface generic straigh= t > away rather than add more ioctls later. What do you think? It might not= > be too late to fix this for 2.6.30. > =20 +1 --------------enigC177E8CF08837F12EF169258 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoAIwoACgkQP5K2CMvXmqHTLgCfUaEQedJILbxS7nez2ttVKsx9 rrUAnAkDDyMUhY1sJmF+DGMAhcnuy8rb =u9R6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigC177E8CF08837F12EF169258--