Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC v3 02/14] intel_iommu: simplify irq region translation

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 08:22:14AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > From: Peter Xu [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 11:06 AM
> > 
> > Before we have int-remap, we need to bypass interrupt write requests.
> > That's not necessary now - we have supported int-remap, and all the irq
> > region requests should be redirected there. Cleaning up the block with
> > an assertion instead.
> 
> This comment is not accurate. According to code, the reason why you
> can do such simplification is because we have standalone memory
> region now for interrupt addresses. There should be nothing to do 
> with int-remap, which can be disabled by guest... Maybe the standalone
> region was added when developing int-remap, but functionally they
> are not related. :-)

IMHO the above commit message is fairly clear. :-)

But sure I can add some more emphasise like:

  "Before we have int-remap memory region, ..."

Do you think it's okay? Or any better suggestion?

(Just to mention that even guest disables IR, the MSI region will
 still be there.)

Thanks,

-- peterx