Re: [Qemu-devel] Enablig DLPAR capacity on QEMU pSeries

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 08:26 -0700, Erlon Cruz wrote:
> >
> > Why not add a proper RTAS and do this work there?
> 
> The RTAS call is how the guest will communicate with the host. It 
> doesn't have a way to get interrupted and notified about any changes.
> So 
> to start the changing of something, the guest need some kind of
> trigger

I believe the question was more about where we put the resource
allocation.

The interrupt problem remains in any case yes, but inventing a new RTAT
event interrupt (or hijacking EPOW) isn't a big deal. 

Cheers,
Ben.