Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] KVM: VMX: Add Posted Interrupt supporting

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:31:06PM +0800, Yang Zhang wrote:
> From: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The follwoing patches are adding the Posted Interrupt supporting to KVM:
> The first patch enables the feature 'acknowledge interrupt on vmexit'.Since
> it is required by Posted interrupt, we need to enable it firstly.
> 
> And the subsequent patches are adding the posted interrupt supporting:
> Posted Interrupt allows APIC interrupts to inject into guest directly
> without any vmexit.
> 
> - When delivering a interrupt to guest, if target vcpu is running,
>   update Posted-interrupt requests bitmap and send a notification event
>   to the vcpu. Then the vcpu will handle this interrupt automatically,
>   without any software involvemnt.
> 
> - If target vcpu is not running or there already a notification event
>   pending in the vcpu, do nothing. The interrupt will be handled by
>   next vm entry
> 
> NOTE: We don't turn on the Posted Interrupt until the coalesced issue is
> solved.

Looks good, but RTC issue should be resolved.

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