> Somthing else that came up in a conversation with Dor: the need for a 
> clean way to raise a guest interrupt.  The guest may be sleeping in 
> userspace, scheduled out, or running on another cpu (and requiring an 
> ipi to get it out of guest mode).

yeah it'd be nice if I could just call a function for it rather than
poking into kvm internals ;)

> Right now I'm thinking about using the signal machinery since it appears 
> to do exactly the right thing.

signals are *expensive* though.

If you design an interrupt interface, it'd rock if you could make it
such that it is "raise <this> interrupt within <x> miliseconds from
now", rather than making it mostly synchronous. That way irq mitigation
becomes part of the interface rather than having to duplicate it all
over the virtual drivers...



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