On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:04:21AM -0200, Glauber Costa wrote: > >> Haven't tested. But since I see that msix need some special code in > >> qemu-kvm, > >> it probably won't. But I assume we can just add a patch ontop of this to > >> add > >> that code and make it work, right? > > > > Sure. However - are you making in-kernel irqchip the default? > > If so, I think the best way to do it would be: > > 1. add in-kernel irqchip, off by default > > 2. fix msix with in-kernel > > 3. make in-kernel on by default > > > Right now there are no knobs to disable it, since last time I checked, > people were inclined to > solve that by adding a machine type that does not do irqchip in > kernel, if wanted.
Can't everything doable by machine type also doable from command line switch? Disabling irqchip used to be a valuable debugging tool. > However, since it is probably not going to reach 0.12 anyway, we can > come up with a patch > that fixes msix, and bundle in this series before I actually enable > the irqchip (which is one > of the last patches) Fine. > -- > Glauber Costa. > "Free as in Freedom" > http://glommer.net > > "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
