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Re: [PATCH v1.1 4/5] KVM: Kick resamplefd for split kernel irqchip


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1.1 4/5] KVM: Kick resamplefd for split kernel irqchip
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:34:14 +0100
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On 27/02/20 22:14, Auger Eric wrote:
>> Yes KVM kernel side should not be involed when we're using split
>> irqchip in this case.  However it should still belongs to the work of
>> the userspace KVM module (kvm-all.c) so that it can still "mimic" the
>> resamplefd feature that KVM_IRQFD provides.
> OK. So that what my actual question. Should this be handled by kvm-all.c?

I think it should; kvm-all.c in this case is providing the API to enable
irqfds (including resamplefds).

You could have a generic file descriptor<->interrupt routing subsystem,
but for now that only exists for KVM so that's where Peter's code need
to go.

Paolo




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