[CFR] Event channel Interrupts and unified Xen interrupt infrastructure.

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 29 19:29:47 UTC 2013


On Aug 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 08/29/13 09:32, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>> I've been working to get the next chunk of Spectra/Roger Pau Monné Xen work into head.  The latest version of the patch I'm working on can be found here:
>> 
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/xen_intr.diff
>> 
>> I will continue my testing today and commit it tonight unless I hear complaints.  Comments, corrections, improvements, and bug reports welcome.
> 
> Could this patch be split into functional and non-functional components?  It's
> distracting having everything mixed up together in a single megapatch.  Even
> committing the s/unlikely/__predict_false/ separately would help.

It could, but it would delay an already long delayed process in getting this work into the tree.

> How do you intend to have Xen HVM work in the GENERIC kernel configuration?
> Will you be adding 'options XENHVM' to GENERIC?

Yes.

--
Justin


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