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SubjectRe: [kvm-devel] [RFC] Deferred interrupt handling.
Alan Cox wrote:
>> IMO the only reasonable solution is to disallow interrupt forwarding
>> with shared irqs. If someone later comes up with a bright idea, we can
>>
>
> Which means you are back to ISA bus devices. Even checking if an IRQ is
> currently unshared isn't simple as with hotplug this may change.
>
>

Hotplug is user-controllable, so if the user refrains from adding pci
devices after assigning a device to the guest, it should work. I think
that USB interrupts are assigned to the controller, not the device, so
USB hotplug can be ruled out.

I admit this is fairly weak.

>> implement it. Otherwise the problem will solve itself with hardware
>> moving to msi.
>>
>
> Only if MSI ever works properly on the bridges and hardware 8(
>

Oh, I've no doubt it will be made to work -- there's money to be saved
in those irq lines. And msi makes sense technically as well.

--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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