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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: yishaih@nvidia.com, shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com,
	kevin.tian@intel.com, alex.williamson@redhat.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, dave.jiang@intel.com, jing2.liu@intel.com,
	ashok.raj@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com,
	tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] vfio/ims: Support emulated interrupts
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:33:06 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZOeGQrRCqf87Joec@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a08c41e1825095814f8c35854d3938c084b2368.1692892275.git.reinette.chatre@intel.com>

On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 09:15:21AM -0700, Reinette Chatre wrote:
> Access from a guest to a virtual device may be either 'direct-path',
> where the guest interacts directly with the underlying hardware,
> or 'intercepted path' where the virtual device emulates operations.
> 
> Support emulated interrupts that can be used to handle 'intercepted
> path' operations. For example, a virtual device may use 'intercepted
> path' for configuration. Doing so, configuration requests intercepted
> by the virtual device driver are handled within the virtual device
> driver with completion signaled to the guest without interacting with
> the underlying hardware.

Why does this have anything to do with IMS? I thought the point here
was that IMS was some back end to the MSI-X emulation - should a
purely emulated interrupt logically be part of the MSI code, not IMS?

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-24 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-24 16:15 [RFC PATCH 0/3] vfio/ims: Back guest interrupts from Interrupt Message Store (IMS) Reinette Chatre
2023-08-24 16:15 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] vfio/pci: Introduce library allocating " Reinette Chatre
2023-08-24 16:15 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] vfio/ims: Support emulated interrupts Reinette Chatre
2023-08-24 16:33   ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2023-08-24 17:19     ` Reinette Chatre
2023-08-25  3:05       ` Tian, Kevin
2023-08-25 16:55         ` Reinette Chatre
2023-08-25 16:59           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2023-08-25 17:14             ` Reinette Chatre
2023-08-24 16:15 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] vfio/ims: Add helper that returns IMS index Reinette Chatre

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