Re: [PATCH 00/10] KVM: s390: make use of the GIB

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On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:11:10 +0100
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/31/2018 11:09 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 25.10.18 14:37, Michael Mueller wrote:  
> >> The Guest Information Area (GIB) and its mechanics is part of
> >> the AIV facility. It provides hardware support to process
> >> Adapter Interruptions (AI) for pagable storage mode guests. 
> >>
> >> Whenever a guest cannot process an AI because none of its
> >> vcpus is running in SIE context, a GIB alert interruption is
> >> sent to and handled by the host program to dispatch a vcpu of
> >> the respective guest.
> >>
> >> Eventually, the AI is handled by the guest.  
> > 
> > 
> > This does not apply to vSIE, right?  
> 
> We do not provide GISA, GIB and friends to the guest (e.g. we do not have
> the scp bits set). So right now we do not have anything to do for vsie.
> 

Any plans to do so in the future?



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