Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for assigned PCI 2.3 devices

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On 02/28/2012 03:19 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> PCI 2.3 allows to generically disable IRQ sources at device level. This
> enables us to share legacy IRQs of such devices with other host devices
> when passing them to a guest.
>
> The new IRQ sharing feature introduced here is optional, user space has
> to request it explicitly. Moreover, user space can inform us about its
> view of PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE so that we can avoid unmasking the
> interrupt and signaling it if the guest masked it via the virtualized
> PCI config space.

Long delay, sorry.

I'm sure we discussed this before, so a URL would be sufficient: why
cannot this be transparent to userspace?

As for the actual patch, I am so unfamiliar with the device assignment
code now that I'll have to rely on Alex's review.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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