Re: [RFC PATCH] KVM: Add module for IRQ forwarding

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On 14/05/20 19:44, Micah Morton wrote:
> I realize this may seem like an over-use of VFIO, but I'm actually
> coming from the angle of wanting to assign _most_ of the important
> hardware on my device to a VM guest, and I'm looking to avoid
> emulation wherever possible. Of course there will be devices like the
> IOAPIC for which emulation is unavoidable, but I think emulation is
> avoidable here for the busses we've mentioned if there is a way to
> forward arbitrary interrupts into the guest.
> 
> Since all these use cases are so close to working with vfio-pci right
> out of the box, I was really hoping to come up with a simple and
> generic solution to the arbitrary interrupt problem that can be used
> for multiple bus types.

I shall defer to Alex on this, but I think the main issue here is that
these interrupts are not visible to Linux as pertaining to the pci-stub
device.  Is this correct?

Paolo




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