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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>, Auger Eric <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, jmattson@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: Add module for IRQ forwarding
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:17:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d5d7eec-77dd-bca9-949f-8f39fcd7d8d7@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-EccP6GNmyCGJZFfXUo2_8KEN_sJZ3=88f+3E-8SJ=JT8Pcg@mail.gmail.com>

On 14/05/20 19:44, Micah Morton wrote:
> I realize this may seem like an over-use of VFIO, but I'm actually
> coming from the angle of wanting to assign _most_ of the important
> hardware on my device to a VM guest, and I'm looking to avoid
> emulation wherever possible. Of course there will be devices like the
> IOAPIC for which emulation is unavoidable, but I think emulation is
> avoidable here for the busses we've mentioned if there is a way to
> forward arbitrary interrupts into the guest.
> 
> Since all these use cases are so close to working with vfio-pci right
> out of the box, I was really hoping to come up with a simple and
> generic solution to the arbitrary interrupt problem that can be used
> for multiple bus types.

I shall defer to Alex on this, but I think the main issue here is that
these interrupts are not visible to Linux as pertaining to the pci-stub
device.  Is this correct?

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-14 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-11 22:00 [RFC PATCH] KVM: Add module for IRQ forwarding Micah Morton
2020-05-12 17:14 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-13  7:02   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-13 14:34     ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-13 15:23       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-13 19:10         ` Micah Morton
2020-05-13 22:05           ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-14 17:44             ` Micah Morton
2020-05-14 21:17               ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-05-14 22:43                 ` Alex Williamson
2020-05-15 20:30                   ` Micah Morton
2020-06-03 18:23                     ` [PATCH] vfio: PoC patch for printing IRQs used by i2c devices Micah Morton
2020-06-09 20:19                       ` Micah Morton
2020-06-19 18:51                         ` Alex Williamson
2020-06-19 20:00                           ` Micah Morton
2020-06-22 21:59                             ` Micah Morton
2020-05-15 10:11               ` [RFC PATCH] KVM: Add module for IRQ forwarding Auger Eric
2020-05-15 16:39                 ` Micah Morton
2020-05-13 21:52     ` Micah Morton

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