Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:06:51 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag |
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On 08/20/2009 08:55 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >> While we could argue about this my feeling is that we should drop this, >> at least until we can quantify what benefit it has and whether there are >> any Davide-acceptable alternatives. >> >> In the meanwhile, we can let vhost-net support edge-triggered interrupts >> only, let qemu terminate those eventfds and convert then to >> level-triggered interrupts (which it can then inject using the existing >> ioctl). It will keep vhost-net and kvm simpler at the cost of some >> performance penalty to guests using level interrupts. These suck anyway >> so we'll point users at msi. >> > I thought the point was to move assigned devices out of KVM? >
Grr. Forgot about that.
That's much more important.
-- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.
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