Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:06:47 +0300 | From | "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag |
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 07:13:32AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/27/2009 02:30 AM, Davide Libenzi wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Davide Libenzi wrote: >> >> >>>> I see no kernel equivalent to read(), but that's easily done. >>>> >>> Adding an in-kernel read based on "ctx", that is no problem at all. >>> >> Something like the untested below. >> I had thought you said the eventfd readers where in userspace, but I might >> have misunderstood you. >> > > No, they're all over the place.
Further, with Davide's proposal you must be a reader to signal events.
> -- > I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this > signature is too narrow to contain.
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