On 14/02/14 18:51, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:49:24 pm Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 08/02/2014 21:42, John Baldwin wrote: >>> On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:20:58 PM Roger Pau Monne wrote: >>>> Lower the quality of the MADT ACPI enumerator, so on Xen Dom0 we can >>>> force the usage of the Xen mptable enumerator even when ACPI is >>>> detected. >>> Hmm, so I think one question is why does the existing MADT parser >>> not work with the MADT table provided by Xen? This may very well >>> be correct, but if it's only a small change to make the existing >>> MADT parser work with Xen's MADT table, that route might be >>> preferable. >>> >> >> For dom0, the MADT seen is the system MADT, which does not bear any >> reality to dom0's topology. For PV domU, no MADT will be found. For >> HVM domU, the MADT seen ought to represent (virtual) reality. > > Hmm, the other changes suggested that you do want to use the I/O APIC > entries and interrupt overrides from the system MADT for dom0? Just > not the CPU entries. Is that correct? Yes, we need the interrupt entries in order to interact with the underlying hardware, but not the CPU entries/topology. Roger.Received on Mon Feb 17 2014 - 15:01:48 UTC
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