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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] xen: Enable event channel of PV extension of
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Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] xen: Enable event channel of PV extension of HVM |
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Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Tue, 9 Mar 2010 10:22:31 +0000 |
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 07:00 +0000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > On 03/08/2010 05:53 PM, Sheng Yang wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 01:10:56 Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > >
> > >> I think that mapping interrupts into VIRQs is a bad idea: you should map
> > >> interrupts into pirqs instead, the code exists already on the kernel
> > >> side so we don't need to do any (ugly) change ther.
> > >>
> > > The code existed in the pv_ops dom0 side, but not in the upstream Linux.
> > > The
> > > latter is our target. We want this work to be accepted by upstream Linux
> > > soon.
>
> > 2. It has significant overlaps with the current xen.git development
> > which is also targeted for upstream. There's no point in creating
> > an unnecessary duplicate mechanism when the infrastructure will be
> > in place anyway.
>
> There's also nothing stopping us from upstreaming portions of the "dom0"
> patchset ahead of full dom0 support if it is useful for some domU
> feature.
>
Indeed.
You just need the pirq mappings and few other things, it shouldn't be
too hard.
At this point I am going to do that myself after this patch series is
completed.
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