RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add MSI support to XEN

["Shan, Haitao" <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Keir,

I am doing on that and incorporating your comments in. I will post the
updated patch after I finished. Thanks for your help!

Best Regards
Haitao Shan

Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 31/3/08 15:25, "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> So, if you leave the driver as it is (triggering the software LSC
>>> interrupt), do APIC EOI in Xen before executing the interrupt
>>> handler in dom0, and do not mask the MSI at all, then you no longer
>>> hang? 
>> 
>> I usuually do experiement in linux kernel, and it no longer hang.
> 
> Well, I'd be okay with an initial implementation which does not allow
> Xen to mask MSIs. But still I think it will be cleaner and more
> extensible to have Xen program the MSI registers anyway. This will
> hide details like interrupt vector, APIC destination mode, etc. from
> the MSI-capable guest, and also will make it easier to support things
> like changing interrupt affinity on the fly (since it will not be
> necessary to get dom0 involved in that). 
> 
> Once you have Xen able to write the MSI registers, I suppose it is
> not much extra work to implement some kind of interrupt mitigation
> scheme involving mask/enable bits of the MSI configuration register.
> 
>  -- Keir

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