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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v9] MSI-X MMIO support for KVM
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:36:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E65DB89.6020909@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110906081247.GE13286@redhat.com>

On 2011-09-06 10:12, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 10:52:41AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW, the same is also true for that optional per-vector masking of
>>> legacy MSI. Are there devices in the field that actually support this? I
>>> haven't found one so far and tend to consider this feature not worth
>>> implementing.
>>
>> Don't know.  I don't like implementing features on the basis of bug
>> reports, though.  On the other hand we can't really test it without
>> a real device.
> 
> Linux will use this capability if present. So
> we could add support for an emulated device (e.g. e1000),
> then test with nested virt once iommu emulation lands :)

Yeah, would be kind of cool. Still, I would feel better having it tested
against a real silicon as well. Also to prove that there is a real need.

So, in case someone stumbles for such a device (bit 8 set in MSI control
word), please let us know!

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-06  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18  8:53 [PATCH 0/4 v9] MSI-X MMIO support for KVM Sheng Yang
2011-02-18  8:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: Move struct kvm_io_device to kvm_host.h Sheng Yang
2011-02-18  8:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Add kvm_io_ext_data to IO handler Sheng Yang
2011-02-18  8:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: Emulate MSI-X table in kernel Sheng Yang
2011-02-18  8:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Add documents for MSI-X MMIO API Sheng Yang
2011-02-22 18:08 ` [PATCH 0/4 v9] MSI-X MMIO support for KVM Marcelo Tosatti
2011-09-01 11:27   ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06  7:52     ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-06  8:12       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-06  8:36         ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-09-06  8:46           ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-06  8:49             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06  9:00               ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-06  9:05                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-06  9:16                   ` Sasha Levin
2011-09-06  9:30                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-06  8:36       ` Jan Kiszka

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