Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic

From: Radim Krcmar
Date: Mon Nov 02 2015 - 09:59:34 EST


2015-11-02 13:21+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> We do not want to do too much work in atomic context, in particular
> not walking all the VCPUs of the virtual machine. So we want
> to distinguish the architecture-specific injection function for irqfd
> from kvm_set_msi. Since it's still empty, reuse the newly added
> kvm_arch_set_irq and rename it to kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic.

kvm/queue uses kvm_arch_set_irq since b7184313f4b9 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V
synthetic interrupt controller").

Is synic going to be dropped before this patch is merged?
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