RE: [RFC]RE: [PATCH] kvm-ia64 irq assignment 1/2 kernel

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Xu, Anthony wrote:
>> Thanks for comments
>> 
>> Basically we are on the same page, while I didn't find your patch
>> about irq assignment, can you post it in this thread again, thx?
>> Below patch makes all PCI devices use level-trigger , active low
>> interrupt, it worked well when running linux guest, I didn't try
>> windows guest yet. (didn't have windows image in hand)
>> 
>> Please comment!
>> 
>> If this is acceptabled, we can figure out how to use IOAPIC in
>> kvm/ia32 based on this. Which will reduce irq sharing dramatically.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> diff --git a/bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl b/bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl
>> index 21fc76a..4b5e824 100755
>> --- a/bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl
>> +++ b/bios/acpi-dsdt.dsl
>> @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ DefinitionBlock (
>>                  Name(_HID, EISAID("PNP0C0F"))     // PCI interrupt
>>                  link Name(_UID, 1)
>>                  Name(_PRS, ResourceTemplate(){
>> -                    Interrupt (, Level, ActiveHigh, Shared)
>> +                    Interrupt (, Level, ActiveLow, Shared)
>>                          { 5, 10, 11 }
>> 
> 
> I think this will fail for guests which use the PIC, since the PIC is
> always active high.
> 
> For x86 the interrupts will have to be active high since that's how
> piix works.

Understand this concern.


Anthony
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