[PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use the new infrastructure for delivering VMBUS interrupts

KY Srinivasan kys at microsoft.com
Sat Feb 9 14:09:45 UTC 2013



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 2:13 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: x86 at kernel.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; devel at linuxdriverproject.org;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use the new infrastructure for
> delivering VMBUS interrupts
> 
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:25:59AM -0800, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Use the infrastructure for delivering VMBUS interrupts using a
> > special vector. With this patch, we can now properly handle
> > the VMBUS interrupts that can be delivered on any CPU. Also,
> > turn on interrupt load balancing as well.
> >
> > This patch requires the infrastructure that was implemented in the patch:
> > X86: Handle Hyper-V vmbus interrupts as special hypervisor interrupts
> >
> 
> Because of the dependancy, this should go through the x86 tree as well:
> 	Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> 

Peter,

Let me know if I need to make any adjustments to these patches. These set of
patches are key for Linux scalability on Hyper-V.

Regards,

K. Y




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