From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Christoffer Dall <c.dall@virtualopensystems.com>,
Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
"kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm-ppc <kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:41:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <508A8501.9070108@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-+tMGK93Jny3nNFmC1QKZRwqf0zvFsAy9oAmtcU-B02w@mail.gmail.com>
On 2012-10-26 14:08, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 26 October 2012 12:57, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> If you exclude old-style PCI pass-through and limit yourself to vhost
>> and VFIO, you can treat irqfd as "the" in-kernel source of the
>> interrupt. Then you need a mapping between MSIs and numbers used in
>> KVM_IRQFD ("GSIs").
>>
>> This is what KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING modifies, and basically the mapping is
>> modified every time a vector is masked/unmasked in the MSI-X table.
>
> So SET_GSI_ROUTING sets the routing for MSIs? Very logical...
See my reply to Ben: It is used for MSIs as well, but not only. The
concept is absolutely generic, you just need to define specific target
types and provide ways to associate specific sources with a virtual IRQ
number ("GSI").
Jan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-14 0:04 [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] KVM: ARM: Introduce KVM_INIT_IRQCHIP ioctl Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:21 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:23 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:31 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 12:20 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-19 18:42 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] KVM: ARM: Introduce KVM_SET_DEVICE_ADDRESS ioctl Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 20:29 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-19 18:46 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-19 20:24 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-19 20:27 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-19 20:33 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-14 0:04 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] KVM: ARM: Split KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP and KVM_INIT_IRQCHIP Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 11:15 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-17 20:38 ` [kvmarm] [RFC PATCH 0/3] KVM: ARM: Get rid of hardcoded VGIC addresses Alexander Graf
2012-10-17 20:39 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-17 21:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-17 22:10 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-17 23:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-18 13:48 ` Christoffer Dall
2012-10-18 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-18 15:25 ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-23 10:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 10:52 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-23 11:04 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-23 11:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-24 0:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2012-10-25 11:57 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 16:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 16:32 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-25 18:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 9:58 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:09 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 10:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 11:09 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 12:08 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 12:41 ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-10-26 20:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:17 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-26 11:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 12:39 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-26 20:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 22:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-27 8:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-10-27 10:01 ` Peter Maydell
2012-10-28 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 10:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 10:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-10-26 11:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-25 19:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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