Feng Wu wrote on 2014-12-12: > This patch defines a new interface kvm_find_dest_vcpu for > VT-d PI, which can returns the destination vCPU of the > interrupt for guests. > > Since VT-d PI cannot handle broadcast/multicast interrupt, > Here we only handle Fixed and Lowest priority interrupts. > > The current method of handling guest lowest priority interrtups > is to use a counter 'apic_arb_prio' for each vCPU, we choose the > vCPU with smallest 'apic_arb_prio' and then increase it by 1. > However, for VT-d PI, we cannot re-use this, since we no longer > have control to 'apic_arb_prio' with posted interrupt direct > delivery by Hardware. > > Here, we introduce a similar way with 'apic_arb_prio' to handle guest > lowest priority interrtups when VT-d PI is used. Here is the ideas: - > Each vCPU has a counter 'round_robin_counter'. - When guests sets an > interrupts to lowest priority, we choose the vCPU with smallest > 'round_robin_counter' as the destination, then increase it. How this can work well? All subsequent interrupts are delivered to one vCPU? It shouldn't be the best solution, need more consideration. Also, I think you should take the apic_arb_prio into consider since the priority is for the whole vCPU not for one interrupt.
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