On 06.03.2013, at 12:57, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >>> I agree. But is the device really being created at CREATE_DEVICE >>> time? What happens if you create N CPUs and N-1 irqchips? >> >> irqchip in CREATE_DEVICE is the IOAPIC, not the LAPIC. The LAPIC gets >> spawned at vcpu creation. >> >>> On x86, the LAPIC is created magically together with the VCPU. >> >> Yes, and so far I haven't seen any proposal to change this even in >> the CREATE_DEVICE world. > > But don't you need anyway an id to get/set the device properties of > the per-VCPU irqchip? If you were adding the x86 irqchip with the > new API, what would be the replacement of KVM_GET_LAPIC/KVM_SET_LAPIC? In the current model, that would be ONE_REG registers on the vcpus. Alex -- 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
