On 01.11.2021 11:47, 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?
As per the subject of your mail simply "hwint"? But, as Roger says, a good name certainly depends on the scope of what exactly you want to cover. Jan
