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RE: [Xen-devel] x2apic mode vs. interrupt remapping

To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Cui, Dexuan" <dexuan.cui@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] x2apic mode vs. interrupt remapping
From: "Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:32:50 +0800
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Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] x2apic mode vs. interrupt remapping
According to the #Cset20168, x2apic is only enabled when all VT-d engines 
support IR and EIM support, so the policy should be same with Linux's.
Xiantao

Jan Beulich wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> while the Linux kernel enters x2apic mode only when it was able to
> initialize interrupt remapping (leaving aside a KVM special case), Xen
> treats the two features as independent ones. We're having a report
> where interrupt delivery doesn't work in x2apic mode (i.e. no-x2apic
> makes the system boot successfully), and hence I'm wondering why
> Xen would use this mode on a wider range of machines than Linux.
> 
> Thanks, Jan
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