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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag
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.

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