From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:08:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56378A62.3090706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151102145923.GB24667@potion.brq.redhat.com>
On 02/11/2015 15:59, Radim Krcmar wrote:
> > We do not want to do too much work in atomic context, in particular
> > not walking all the VCPUs of the virtual machine. So we want
> > to distinguish the architecture-specific injection function for irqfd
> > from kvm_set_msi. Since it's still empty, reuse the newly added
> > kvm_arch_set_irq and rename it to kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic.
>
> kvm/queue uses kvm_arch_set_irq since b7184313f4b9 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V
> synthetic interrupt controller").
>
> Is synic going to be dropped before this patch is merged?
Yes. Both because the Virtuozzo people confirmed that kvm_arch_set_irq
isn't needed for synic, and because synic is currently broken with APICv.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-02 12:21 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: clean up interrupt injection Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-02 12:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-02 14:59 ` Radim Krcmar
2015-11-02 16:08 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-11-02 17:01 ` Radim Krcmar
2015-11-02 17:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-02 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-02 12:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment Paolo Bonzini
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