On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 10:47:26AM +0000, 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?
Is this going to cover both hardware assisted interrupt controller and assisted interrupt delivery (ie: APIC virtualization and posted interrupts in x86 speak) or just one of them? Thanks, Roger.
