qemu-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] msix: Align MSI-X constants to libpci de


From: Jan Kiszka
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 8/9] msix: Align MSI-X constants to libpci definitions and extend them
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:48:10 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666

On 2011-06-08 21:53, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:21:51PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Add PCI_MSIX_TABLE and PCI_MSIX_PBA, align other MSIX related constant
>> names to libpci style. Will be used for device assignment code in
>> qemu-kvm.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
> 
> Besides keeping pci_regs.h aligned with the original,
> I also think ideally pci register banging should stay
> within the pci subsystem.
> 
> Could we add high-level APIs to help with that,
> instead of having kvm look at config space directly?

We could move the related static inlines from msi/msix.c to the headers
in order to test for bits etc. Still, kvm needs to interpret the config
space of the assigned device, so the abstraction will remain rather low.

Jan

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]