From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: Introduce direct MSI message injection for in-kernel irqchips Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:57:07 +0300 Message-ID: <4F969513.9020706@redhat.com> References: <4F734EB3.20500@siemens.com> <4F748AAD.2040103@siemens.com> <4F74B484.30607@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , kvm , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eric Northup To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1029 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752773Ab2DXL5M (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:57:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4F74B484.30607@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/29/2012 09:14 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Currently, MSI messages can only be injected to in-kernel irqchips by > defining a corresponding IRQ route for each message. This is not only > unhandy if the MSI messages are generated "on the fly" by user space, > IRQ routes are a limited resource that user space has to manage > carefully. > > By providing a direct injection path, we can both avoid using up limited > resources and simplify the necessary steps for user land. > > Applied to queue (for 3.5). Thanks for your patience. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function