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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] vIOSAPIC and IRQs delivery

To: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@xxxxxxxxx>, "Magenheimer, Dan \(HP Labs Fort Collins\)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>, <xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] vIOSAPIC and IRQs delivery
From: Tristan Gingold <Tristan.Gingold@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:23:04 +0100
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Le Mardi 07 Mars 2006 11:38, Dong, Eddie a écrit :
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> So should we use a new term virtual IRQ or interrupt virtualization?
> Both LSAPIC and IOSAPIC need to be done in vIRQ.
> BTW, RTE is still accessed by para-guest in previous patch :-)
> Writing of RTE in machine resource from one domain will
> impact the correctness of other domain if they share same
> IRQ line.
BTW, I think it will be *very* hard to find an ia64 platform which can share 
an IRQ line.  Maybe I am wrong but I don't know such a platform :-(

Tristan.


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