On 2011-04-27 14:54, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:23:38PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> From: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> >> >> Testing support and allocating a GSI for an MSI message is required both >> for MSI and MSI-X. At this chance, drop the aging version warning. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> > > No objection, but I do note that this means running on an old > kernel will lead to a silent failure.
Shouldn't be silent: The caller of msi_vector_use should check and process the error (virtio should even forward it to guest IIUC). > stderr output is not in fact much better: I think we should > check the capability in msix_init. Care coding this up? I think the motivation to check on vector activation is that devices and guests without a need for MSI should not cause a failure if MSI is unsupported by KVM. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
