Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:30:07 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 30 of 38] xen: implement io_apic_ops |
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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? >
Not having studied the Xen code in detail, but my assumption would be that we should allocate this at the IRQ chip level rather than violating the IO-APIC code. I also (as previously discussed) really want to see a dynamic allocator for IRQ numbers like PowerPC already has.
-hpa
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