From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: assign-dev: Purpose of interrupt_work
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:16:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD2F406.9050108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD2F1D0.4090005@web.de>
On 10/12/2009 11:07 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> I'm worried about disabling irqs for non-device-assignment cases. It
>> would be more palatable if ioapic was completely O(1) (there are some
>> per-vcpu loops in there, shouldn't be too bad for 16 vcpus, but we want
>> to scale).
>>
> Yeah, what a pity. That's likely not solvable in a generic way, given
> that the guest finally decided how many VCPUs may listen to a line.
>
> OK, but dropping interrupt_work from the MSI path is still worthwhile,
> and probably more future-proof anyway.
>
Yes - we can extend the irq routing table to contain this information.
It means we need to invalidate it when the guest reprograms the
interrupt controllers, but I think it should work out fine.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-12 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 7:03 assign-dev: Purpose of interrupt_work Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 7:13 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 7:27 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 7:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 7:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 7:57 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 8:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 8:39 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 9:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 9:14 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 9:25 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 9:30 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 9:38 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 9:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 9:42 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 9:14 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 8:39 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 9:05 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-10-12 9:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-10-12 9:07 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-10-12 9:16 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-10-12 17:36 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-10-12 20:44 ` Jan Kiszka
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