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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
	Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: fast-path msi injection with irqfd
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:18:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE527B7.4060006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101118131453.GO7948@redhat.com>

On 11/18/2010 03:14 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 03:03:37PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >  >  >+static inline void kvm_irq_routing_update(struct kvm *kvm,
> >  >  >+					  struct kvm_irq_routing_table *irq_rt)
> >  >  >+{
> >  >  >+	rcu_assign_pointer(kvm->irq_routing, irq_rt);
> >  >  >+}
> >  >  >+
> >  >  >   static inline int kvm_ioeventfd(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_ioeventfd *args)
> >  >  >   {
> >  >  >   	return -ENOSYS;
> >  >
> >  >  Apart from these minor issues, looks good.
> >
> >
> >  Something we should consider improving is the loop over all VCPUs that
> >  kvm_irq_delivery_to_apic invokes.  I think that (for non-broadcast
> >  interrupts) it should be possible to precompute an store the CPU
> >  in question as part of the routing entry.
> >
> >  Something for a separate patch ... comments?
> >
> I do not think this info should be part of routing entry. Routing entry
> is more about describing wires on the board. Other then that
> this is a good idea that, IIRC, we already discussed once.
>

Not as part of the routing entry exposed to userspace.  But as a private 
kernel field, why not?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-18 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 22:12 [PATCH RFC] kvm: fast-path msi injection with irqfd Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18  9:05 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-18  9:16   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18  9:20     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-18  9:34   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 10:04     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-18  9:55 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 10:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 11:03   ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 11:10     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 12:29       ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 13:03         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 13:09           ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 13:14           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-18 13:18             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-11-18 13:20             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 13:35               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-11-18 13:39                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-11-18 13:49                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 13:48                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-11-18 14:39                   ` Gleb Natapov

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