Re: [RFC][PATCH 28/45] qemu-kvm: msix: Drop tracking of used vectors

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On 2011-10-18 17:56, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> What would probably help us long-term out of your concerns regarding
>> lazy routing is to bypass that redundant GSI translation for dynamic
>> messages, i.e. those that are not associated with an irqfd number or an
>> assigned device irq. Something like a KVM_DELIVER_MSI IOCTL that accepts
>> address and data directly.
>>
>> Jan
> 
> You are trying to work around the problem by not requiring
> any resources per MSI vector. This just might work for some
> uses (ioctl) but isn't a generic solution (e.g. won't work for irqfd).

irqfd is not affected anymore in that model as it cannot participate in
lazy routing anyway.

Jan

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