RE: [PATCH 0/1] x2apic implementation for kvm

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Sheng Yang wrote:
>> I think that means the PV interface for lapic. And yes, we can
>> support it follow MS's interface, but x2apic still seems another
>> story as you noted... I still don't think support x2apic here would
>> bring us more benefits. 
>> 
> 
> x2apic has the following benefit:
> 
> - msr exits are faster than mmio (no page table walk, emulation)
> - no need to read back ICR to look at the busy bit
> - one ICR write instead of two
> - potential to support large guests once we add interrupt remapping
> - shared code with the Hyper-V paravirt interface
> 
Is there any plan to implement an PV irqchip such as Xenirqchip for KVM?--
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