Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: enable irq injection from interrupt context

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 05:46:19 EST


On 09/16/2010 11:25 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
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> MSI only appeared in rhel6, older guests still use level interrupts.
So they are already slow for other reasons.


Exactly, for example they need to exit to userspace to ack the interrupt. That's far slower than the workqueue.


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