Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.

2007-07-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:38:09PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Looking at two random servers here and a desktop, interrupts are > unshared except for usb. A laptop was not so lucky. So "no chance" is > a bit extreme. > > I agree it's far from optimal, but it is less limited than you imply. Wel

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.

2007-07-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:23:24PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > No, it means disallowing pci devices that use shared irqs, and allowing > pci devices that use non-shared irqs. Most machiens I see today have almost no chance of having PCI devices without shared IRQs. This probably means any impleme

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.

2007-07-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 07:46:13PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > IMO the only reasonable solution is to disallow interrupt forwarding > with shared irqs. If someone later comes up with a bright idea, we can > implement it. Otherwise the problem will solve itself with hardware > moving to msi. Disal

Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.

2007-07-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:53:19PM +0300, Or Sagi wrote: > Gentlepeople, > > We're currently working on PCI device pass-through support for KVM. In this > model all physical hardware access to specific devices will be performed by > the VM, and not by the host. > > In particular, this requires in