linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for passed-through PCI 2.3 devices

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Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:19:35 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@....de>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tom Lyon <pugs@...co.com>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: Allow host IRQ sharing for passed-through
 PCI 2.3 devices

On 12/12/2010 01:22 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> From: Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
>
> PCI 2.3 allows to generically disable IRQ sources at device level. This
> enables us to share IRQs of such devices on the host side when passing
> them to a guest.
>
> However, IRQ disabling via the PCI config space is more costly than
> masking the line via disable_irq. Therefore we register the IRQ in adaptive
> mode and switch between line and device level disabling on demand.
>
> This feature is optional, user space has to request it explicitly as it
> also has to inform us about its view of PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE. That
> way, we can avoid unmasking the interrupt and signaling it if the guest
> masked it via the PCI config space.
>

Looks fine.

> +		ret =IRQ_NONE;
> +

Danger, whitespace error detected.  Initiating self-destruct sequence.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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