Re: xen 4 only seeing one keyboard and mouse

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>]

On 26/08/2010 23:24, "M A Young" <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> or perhaps it should happen in io_apic_set_pci_routing from
> xen/arch/x86/io_apic.c where the higher IRQs are set (it doesn't because
> __assign_irq_vector sees the IRQ is already in use
>       old_vector = irq_to_vector(irq);
>      if (old_vector) {
>          cpus_and(tmp_mask, mask, cpu_online_map);
>          cpus_and(tmp_mask, cfg->domain, tmp_mask);
>          if (!cpus_empty(tmp_mask)) {
>              cfg->vector = old_vector;
>              return 0;
>          }
>      }
> but seems to miss the fact that it is only actually configured for one
> cpu.

Setting up for one CPU only was the whole point of the per-cpu IDT patch. It
allows the same vector on different CPUs to be bound to different
interrupts, hence increasing the system-wide interrupt limit by a factor
equal to number of CPUs in the system. As long as the interrupt controller
is programmed to only interrupt the CPU which has the vector allocated, all
is good.

 -- Keir