Re: [PATCH 02/10] powerpc/xive: guest exploitation of the XIVE interrupt controller

On Thu, 2017-08-10 at 14:28 +1000, David Gibson wrote:

Also, will POWER9 always have doorbells?  In which case you could
reduce it to 3 options.

The problem with doorbells on POWER9 guests is that they may have
to trap and be emulated by the hypervisor, since the guest threads
on P9 don't have to match the HW threads of the core.

Thus it's quite possible that using XIVE for IPIs is actually faster
than doorbells in that case.

Cheers,
Ben.