[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5] PV on HVM Xen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 05:38:37PM +0800, Sheng Yang wrote: > On Monday 15 March 2010 20:22:23 Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Sheng Yang wrote: > > > Hi Stefano > > > > > > I've checked your patches. And one point puzzled me(I am looking into > > > pv_ops dom0 code): seems if it depends on PIRQ, it would still require to > > > do EOI(then result in vmexit) for edge triggered interrupt? (through > > > xen_pirq_chip->end). And unmask is still a heavy work required > > > vmexit?(seems it need twice vmexit, even heavier than current HVM > > > solution) > > > > Only when pirq_needs_eoi(irq) returns true, and this happens when > > PIRQ_NEEDS_EOI is set. > > In my patch series I am making sure PIRQ_NEEDS_EOI is never set for any > > pirq on HVM. > > > OK. > > I would like to work on the PIRQ porting upstream Linux(I would try ACPI but > not sure if it would make code much more complex, e.g. cpu hotplug, PCI > hotplug... A simple version would be just using PIRQ instead of VIRQ in my > patches, but PIRQ is flexible, I would see if I can do more with it). And we > may not get a version exactly the same as pv_ops dom0 code in the end... I That is OK. There is no problems in ripping out the dom0 code and building on top of your code. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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