Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:59:23 +0100
From: Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with
 kvm_set_msi_inatomic
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2015-11-02 13:21+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> We do not want to do too much work in atomic context, in particular
> not walking all the VCPUs of the virtual machine.  So we want
> to distinguish the architecture-specific injection function for irqfd
> from kvm_set_msi.  Since it's still empty, reuse the newly added
> kvm_arch_set_irq and rename it to kvm_arch_set_irq_inatomic.

kvm/queue uses kvm_arch_set_irq since b7184313f4b9 ("kvm/x86: Hyper-V
synthetic interrupt controller").

Is synic going to be dropped before this patch is merged?
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