Dong, Eddie wrote: > Avi: > To make lapic code into mainline earlier, I am thinking what > should the user space code look like. If we wait till lapic branch has > all same functionality as mainline have today i.e. live migration, all > guests etc, we may have very long way to go given that only Greg (temply > off), me have contribution to the code besides you. So what I am > thinking is to reduce the bar to "no regression", which means a user > space command to choice kernel pic/apic. When choosing user pic/apic, we > make sure everything works including livemigration and all known good > guests; if choosing kernel pic/apic, we have better performance but > some feature lagging such as live migration. > Does this make sense? If yes, How about command option "-irqchip > k" and "-irqchip u"? the default value is user. >
That doesn't work; one day we'll make kernel apic the default, and then that new userspace won't work with kernels that have in-kernel pic but not lapic. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
