Hi, > On 2 Nov 2021, at 07:16, Alistair Francis <alistai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 6:33 AM Stefano Stabellini > <sstabell...@kernel.org> wrote: >> >> +Bertrand >> >> On Mon, 1 Nov 2021, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> On ARM, the GIC is a hard prerequisite for VMs. >>> >>> I can't remember what the state of RISCV is, but IIRC there is still >>> some debate over how interrupts are expected to work under virt. > > We are getting there, the current draft is pretty stable: > https://github.com/riscv/riscv-aia/ > >>> >>> On x86, the story is very different. PV have no hardware assistance, >>> while HVM hardware assistance depends on hardware support. Therefore we >>> want to introduce a new CDF flag so we can control the setting per >>> domain, rather than globally as it is done now. >>> >>> This brings us to the question of what a suitable architecture name >>> would be. >>> >>> Hardware Virtual Interrupts is a little too close to Hardware Virtual >>> (Machine) Introspection, and Hardware Assisted Interrupts (mirroring >>> HAP) doesn't seem great either. >>> >>> Thoughts / ideas / suggestions? >> >> Maybe "hardware-enabled virtualized interrupts" > > hardware-supported virtualised interrupts (HSV Interrupts)
Both propositions are ok I think but I have a preference for supported. Cheers Bertrand > > Alistair
