[kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/1] QEMU/KVM: Support for PCI Passthrough

Amit Shah amit.shah at qumranet.com
Thu Apr 17 22:39:51 PDT 2008


* On Monday 14 Apr 2008 06:01:07 Samuel Masham wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Dor Laor <dor.laor at qumranet.com> wrote:
> >  On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:48 +0300, Amit Shah wrote:
> >  > If kvm uses the in-kernel irqchip, interrupts are routed to
> >  > the guest via the kvm module (accompanied kernel changes are
> >  > necessar). If -no-kvm-irqchip is used, the 'irqhook' module, also
> >  > included here, is to be used.
> >
> >  IMO we can drop the pci pass through support in userspace and only keep
> >  the in-kenel chip path. Normally we do want the option of running w/o
> >  kernel devices but it's only to test for regressions against userspace.
> >  In this case it's all new code so there is no point to compare, it's
> >  just lots of complicated code (userspace apic, irqhook module) that only
> >  helpful for qemu. Since it's not likely qemu will merge it, let's stick
> >  with the main path.
> >  Comments?
>
> Please keep the userspace support alive.
>
> I am particularly interested in using the pci-passthough to qemu
> running non x86 system emulation
> (at the moment mips)
>
> My hope is that the pci - passthough could help with developing
> drivers and testing across architectures...

OK; keeping support around won't be too much of a hassle, though the current 
support for pci-passthrough and the irqhook module are developed with x86 in 
mind (and only tested on x86).

Since it's not tested on any other architecture, I've marked it TARGET_I386 
and TARGET_X86_64 for now. Feel free to extend it to other architectures.

Amit.


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