linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 30 of 38] xen: implement io_apic

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Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:06 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@...rix.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 30 of 38] xen: implement io_apic_ops

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>   
>> it certainly looks thin enough to me although i'm really not sure we 
>> want to virtualize at the IO-APIC level. Peter, what's your 
>> opinion/preference?
>>
>>     
>
> relative fixed mapping, always make it simple and tracked easily.
> like irq nr == gsi nr...

That was a bit terse for me to understand your point.  The code already 
has irq==gsi.  Are you proposing that it stay that way, or something else?

    J
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