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Re: Arch-neutral name for hardware interrupt support


  • To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 13:59:54 +0100
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On 01.11.2021 11:47, 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.
> 
> 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?

As per the subject of your mail simply "hwint"? But, as Roger says, a
good name certainly depends on the scope of what exactly you want to
cover.

Jan




 


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