On Thursday 21 May 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: > Paul Brook wrote: > >>> which is a trivial wrapper around stl_phys. > >> > >> OK, but I'm adding another level of indirection in the middle, > >> to allow us to tie in a kvm backend. > > > > kvm has no business messing with the PCI device code. > > kvm has a fast path for irq injection. If qemu wants to support it we > need some abstraction here. Fast path from where to where? Having the PCI layer bypass/re-implement the APIC and inject the interrupt directly into the cpu core sounds a particularly bad idea. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html