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From: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@linux.intel.com>,
	Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>,
	Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86/apic: Introduce paravirq irq_domain
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 01:58:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5aaeb0ec-fd16-ab28-3892-3c6a18165a30@linux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e72b9d24-48ee-068b-cd70-6d1550f91538@siemens.com>

On 17.08.2016 17:36, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2016-08-15 14:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 15/08/2016 13:51, Alexander Popov wrote:
>>> It seems to me that the idea of an irq_domain for interrupts injected
>>> by a hypervisor is quite generic.
>>
>> True, but all of Xen, KVM and VMware use PCI devices for this.
> 
> So does Jailhouse. We have to have the code anyway because we need to
> keep Linux alive after taking over control. Thus it is actually easier
> to reuse the same logic for para-virtualized domains (non-root cells).

Hello, Jan! Yes, I see.

I can only say that Xen, KVM, VMware and Jailhouse happily use hypercalls,
which are a valid interface between a hypervisor and its guests.

Positive Technologies hypervisor called Gvandra (named after a big Caucasus
mountain) tries to use only the hypercalls and avoid PCI device emulation
to become slimmer.

Best regards,
Alexander

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-11 14:02 [PATCH 1/1] x86/apic: Introduce paravirq irq_domain Alexander Popov
2016-08-11 16:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-08-12 10:56   ` Alexander Popov
2016-08-12 11:43     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-08-12 22:07       ` Alexander Popov
2016-08-13  6:20         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-08-15 11:51           ` Alexander Popov
2016-08-15 12:37             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-08-16 20:00               ` Alexander Popov
2016-08-17 14:36               ` Jan Kiszka
2016-08-17 22:58                 ` Alexander Popov [this message]
2016-08-19 10:47                   ` Jan Kiszka

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