From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsQlF-0004OP-Ng for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:40:09 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MsQlA-0004Jf-1l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:40:08 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48129 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MsQl9-0004JS-Ss for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:40:03 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:50605) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MsQl9-0007q5-FD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:40:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:39:58 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] in kernel irqchip support Message-ID: <20090929003958.GA5527@shareable.org> References: <1254172517-28216-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1254172517-28216-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Glauber Costa Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Glauber Costa wrote: >I am ready to advocate that it should be the default, whenever >available. I plan to, however, provide a patch that disables it >whenever this gets merged. Is the in-kernel irqchip simply intended to accelerate some part of the CPU/irq emulation, so that you could enable or disable it at will, as well as migrating to TCG-using systems and back, with no observable effect except performance? -- Jamie