On 06/05/2011 07:25 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote: > >> > >> An additional advantage is that this is a vm ioctl, not a vcpu ioctl, so > >> no need to interrupt the vcpu thread in userspace in order to queue an > >> interrupt. Of course, it still happens in the kernel, but it's easier > >> for userspace to implement its device model this way. > > > > So supporting this over existing archs would have some benefits as well, > > though a bit smaller if in-kernel irqchip is already implemented. > > > > Could you elaborate what you mean here? I'm not really following. Are > you suggesting a new arch-generic interface? (Pardon my ignorance). Using KVM_IRQ_LINE everywhere except s390, not just in x86 and ARM. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
