On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:39 -0400, Christoffer Dall wrote:

> > Have you talked to Ben about this one? He wanted to design a new, more
> > flexible irqchip API that would work for XICS & MPIC. Maybe there's some
> > room for cooperation here?
> >
> I have not - Ben, what do you have in mind?

I've been sidetracked to some other stuff so for now Paul (CC) is taking
over my interrupt patches.

We initially changes IRQ_CREATE_IRQCHIP to take an argument but that was
causing an x86 ABI breakage (ioctl number changing). So we'll probably
be creating a new one.

>From there, nothing fancy really, just an ioctl with an IRQ chip type at
the beginning followed by a union of type-specific parameters.

The main problem we haven't sorted out yet is how to replace some of the
horrors related to mapping interrupts that have tendrils all the way
into virtio-pci etc... in kemu that don't apply to use (well mostly) and
the interaction with in-kernel generated interrupts to avoid going
through qemu for vhost ec...

Cheers,
Ben.


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