Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2015 17:08:02 +0100 |
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On 02/11/2015 15:59, Radim Krcmar wrote: > > We do not want to do too much work in atomic context, in particular > > not walking all the VCPUs of the virtual machine. So we want > > to distinguish the architecture-specific injection function for irqfd > > from kvm_set_msi. Since it's still empty, reuse the newly added > > kvm_arch_set_irq and rename it to kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic. > > kvm/queue uses kvm_arch_set_irq since b7184313f4b9 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V > synthetic interrupt controller"). > > Is synic going to be dropped before this patch is merged?
Yes. Both because the Virtuozzo people confirmed that kvm_arch_set_irq isn't needed for synic, and because synic is currently broken with APICv.
Paolo
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