On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:24:45PM -0700, Tom Lyon wrote: > For my purposes, collapsing all the MSI-Xs into one MSI-look-alike is fine, > because I'd be using MSI anyways if I could. The weird Intel 82599 VF only > supports MSI-X. For KVM this is not fine. The device should look in the guest as it looks in the host. Some devices might only support MSI-X and thus the drivers for it only search for MSI-X and get confused when they only find MSI. > So one big question is - do we expand the whole UIO framework for KVM > requirements, or do we split off either KVM or non-VM into a separate driver? > Hans or Greg - care to opine? We should definitly work towards a single implementation. The KVM device passthrough requirements are not very different from that of userspace device access. Joerg -- 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
