[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <1268128085.11737.59761.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 09:48:05 +0000
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC: Sheng Yang <sheng@...ux.intel.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@...citrix.com>,
xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@...citrix.com>,
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <Jeremy.Fitzhardinge@...rix.com>,
Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@...citrix.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <kliw@...nok.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 7/7] xen: Enable event channel of PV
extension of HVM
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 07:00 +0000, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 03/08/2010 05:53 PM, Sheng Yang wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 01:10:56 Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >
> >> I think that mapping interrupts into VIRQs is a bad idea: you should map
> >> interrupts into pirqs instead, the code exists already on the kernel
> >> side so we don't need to do any (ugly) change ther.
> >>
> > The code existed in the pv_ops dom0 side, but not in the upstream Linux. The
> > latter is our target. We want this work to be accepted by upstream Linux soon.
> 2. It has significant overlaps with the current xen.git development
> which is also targeted for upstream. There's no point in creating
> an unnecessary duplicate mechanism when the infrastructure will be
> in place anyway.
There's also nothing stopping us from upstreaming portions of the "dom0"
patchset ahead of full dom0 support if it is useful for some domU
feature.
Ian.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists