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

To: "Shan, Haitao" <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx>, Neil Turton <nturton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add MSI support to XEN
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:31:34 +0100
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On 3/4/08 13:11, "Shan, Haitao" <haitao.shan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for trying the patches. The problem is caused by incompatibility
> between Xen and Dom0 kernel.
> Pci_vector_resources is to calculate available vectors. Xen assigns vector by
> start with vector 0x20 and offset = 0. This will confuse the code in
> pci_vector_resources.
> Maybe we should replace the function with a hypercall to acquire the number of
> available vectors.
> How do you think about it, Keir?

I may not understand the issue here, but in principle I do not particularly
want to have anything outside Xen handling real IRQ vectors. In which case
this confusion should not exist in the first place? I know the last round of
patches did have dom0 poking the MSI registers, and hence it knew about real
vectors, but that's being changed in the next round, right?

 -- Keir



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