Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86/kvm: Add KVM_FEATURE_MSI_EXT_DEST_ID

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, Oct 10 2020 at 12:58, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On 10 October 2020 12:44:10 BST, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>On Sat, Oct 10 2020 at 11:06, David Woodhouse wrote:

>>> The IRQ remapping drivers already plug into the device-add notifier
>>> and can fill in the appropriate MSI domain just like they do¹ for
>>> PCI and ACPI devices.
>>> Using platform_add_bundle() for HPET looks trivial enough; I'll have
>>> a play with that and then do IOAPIC too if/when the initialisation
>>> order and hotplug handling all works out OK to install the correct
>>> msi_domain.
>>
>> Yes, I was wondering about that when I made PCI at least use that
>> mechanism, but had not had time to actually look at it.
>
> Yeah. There's some muttering to be done for HPET about whether it's
> *its* MSI domain or whether it's the parent domain. But I'll have a
> play. I think we'll be able to drop the whole
> irq_remapping_get_irq_domain() thing.

That would be really nice.

> Either way, it's a separate cleanup and the 15-bit APIC ID series I
> posted yesterday should be fine as it is.

I go over it in the next days once more and stick it into my devel tree
until rc1. Need to get some conflicts sorted with that Device MSI stuff.

Thanks,

        tglx