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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Zhang,
	Yang Z" <yang.z.zhang-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	"Wu, Feng" <feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
	Alex Williamson
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:14:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <546324F4.8010002@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A9667DDFB95DB7438FA9D7D576C3D87E0ABDBB25-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>



On 12/11/2014 04:42, Zhang, Yang Z wrote:
> Personally, I think this feature will be helpful to the legacy device
> assignment. Agree, vfio is the right solution for future feature
> enabling. But the old kvm without the good vfio supporting is still
> used largely today. The user really looking for this feature but they
> will not upgrade their kernel. It's easy for us to backport this
> feature to old kvm with the legacy device assignment, but it is
> impossible to backport the whole vfio.

You can certainly backport these patches to distros that do not have
VFIO.  But upstream we should work on VFIO first.  VFIO has feature
parity with legacy device assignment, and adding a new feature that is
not in VFIO would be a bad idea.

By the way, do you have benchmark results for it?  We have not been able
to see any performance improvement for APICv on e.g. netperf.

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-12  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11  9:20 [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]   ` <5461EC99.1000101-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-11 12:28     ` Wu, Feng
2014-11-12  3:42     ` Zhang, Yang Z
     [not found]       ` <A9667DDFB95DB7438FA9D7D576C3D87E0ABDBB25-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:14         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
     [not found]           ` <546324F4.8010002-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:19             ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]               ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00227680F-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-12  9:56                 ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                   ` <54632ECA.4070903-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:14                     ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]                       ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F002284398-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:21                         ` Zhang, Yang Z
     [not found]                           ` <A9667DDFB95DB7438FA9D7D576C3D87E0ABE5A68-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:30                             ` Wu, Feng
     [not found]                               ` <E959C4978C3B6342920538CF579893F00228443D-0J0gbvR4kTg/UvCtAeCM4rfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13  1:46                                 ` Zhang, Yang Z
2014-11-12 17:11             ` Alex Williamson
     [not found]               ` <1415812284.16601.372.camel-85EaTFmN5p//9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-13 11:39                 ` Wu, Feng
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-11 13:02 Wu, Feng
2014-11-11 11:22 Wu, Feng
2014-11-10  6:26 [PATCH 00/13] Add VT-d Posted-Interrupts support for KVM Feng Wu
     [not found] ` <1415600812-27773-1-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-10  6:26   ` [PATCH 05/13] KVM: Update IRTE according to guest interrupt configuration changes Feng Wu
     [not found]     ` <1415600812-27773-6-git-send-email-feng.wu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2014-11-10 21:57       ` Alex Williamson

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