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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] kvm: enable irq injection from interrupt context
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:53:10AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:46:03AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 09/16/2010 11:25 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > >>
> > >> MSI only appeared in rhel6, older guests still use level interrupts.
> > >So they are already slow for other reasons.
> > >
> >
> > Exactly, for example they need to exit to userspace to ack the
> > interrupt. That's far slower than the workqueue.
>
> Well, this is not exactly comparable: you might get
> same irq asserted multiple times and only deasserted once.
>
Are we talking about level interrupts? Why would you assert level
triggered interrupt multiple times before deasserting it?

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Gleb.


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