Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Virtualizing interrupt priority and delivery
- Patent Title (中): 虚拟化中断优先级和交付
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Application No.: US13325714Application Date: 2011-12-14
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Publication No.: US08910158B2Publication Date: 2014-12-09
- Inventor: Gilbert Neiger , Rajesh M. Sankaran , Gideon Gerzon , Richard A. Uhlig , Sergiu D. Ghetie , Michael Neve de Mevergnies , Adil Karrar
- Applicant: Gilbert Neiger , Rajesh M. Sankaran , Gideon Gerzon , Richard A. Uhlig , Sergiu D. Ghetie , Michael Neve de Mevergnies , Adil Karrar
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agent Thomas R. Lane
- Main IPC: G06F9/455
- IPC: G06F9/455

Abstract:
Embodiments of processors, methods, and systems for virtualizing interrupt prioritization and delivery are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes instruction hardware and execution hardware. The instruction hardware is to receive a plurality of instructions, including a first instruction to transfer the processor from a root mode to a non-root mode for executing guest software in a virtual machine, wherein the processor is to return to the root mode upon the detection of any of a plurality of virtual machine exit events. The execution hardware is to execute the first instruction, execution of the first instruction to include determining a first virtual processor-priority value and storing the first virtual processor-priority value in a virtual copy of a processor-priority field, where the virtual copy of the processor-priority field is a virtual resource corresponding to a physical resource associated with an interrupt controller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130159579A1 VIRTUALIZING INTERRUPT PRIORITY AND DELIVERY Public/Granted day:2013-06-20
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