Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:36:21 +0300 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag |
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On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 04:01:29PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/20/2009 09:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>> I thought the point was to move assigned devices out of KVM? >>>> >>>> >>> Grr. Forgot about that. >>> >>> That's much more important. >>> >> Looks like we'll have do with a separate char device or >> something? >> > > We can still tunnel it through userspace.
More important here is realization that eventfd is a mutex/semaphore implementation, not a generic event reporting interface as we are trying to use it.
> Most assigned devices will > have MSI. uio can signal the eventfd when the level changes, qemu can > read the level and write it to kvm. > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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