Hi Jan,
On 23.06.2016 13:53, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2016-06-23 11:33, Valentine Sinitsyn wrote:
Hi all,
What is the semantics of system_config->interrupt_limit field?
Am I right that this is a maximum number of distinct interrupt messages
a board is allowed to generate? Or is it an architectural limit for the
number of vectors?
In practice, it is the maximum number of distinct interrupt sources to
expect on Intel systems, used to size the IR table appropriately (on
AMD, they are device-bound, so you shouldn't have a need for this). As
we have no SMMU for ARM yet, I'm not sure if there will be a reuse. If
not, we can make it x86-only.
I'm inclined to have a single shared interrupt table on AMD as well. We
don't have a subpage allocator in Jailhouse (I've sketched one last
night, but it didn't go really well), and handing off page-sized tables
to devices needing only a single IRTE seems to be a waste. So knowing
the size of the table in advance is also convenient.
Thanks for clarifying this for me.
Valentine
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