Re: [PATCH 30 of 38] xen: implement io_apic_ops

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Nov 20 2008 - 20:33:52 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> it certainly looks thin enough to me although i'm really not sure we
> want to virtualize at the IO-APIC level. Peter, what's your
> opinion/preference?
>

Not having studied the Xen code in detail, but my assumption would be
that we should allocate this at the IRQ chip level rather than violating
the IO-APIC code. I also (as previously discussed) really want to see a
dynamic allocator for IRQ numbers like PowerPC already has.

-hpa
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