> > I agree. But is the device really being created at CREATE_DEVICE > > time? What happens if you create N CPUs and N-1 irqchips? > > irqchip in CREATE_DEVICE is the IOAPIC, not the LAPIC. The LAPIC gets > spawned at vcpu creation. > > > On x86, the LAPIC is created magically together with the VCPU. > > Yes, and so far I haven't seen any proposal to change this even in > the CREATE_DEVICE world.
But don't you need anyway an id to get/set the device properties of the per-VCPU irqchip? If you were adding the x86 irqchip with the new API, what would be the replacement of KVM_GET_LAPIC/KVM_SET_LAPIC? Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
