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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	gleb@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:51:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A91737E.5080807@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090823143021.GA27495@redhat.com>

On 08/23/2009 04:30 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 04:40:51PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/23/2009 04:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Well it is a generic event reporting interface (for example, aio uses it).
>
> Davide, I think it's a valid point.  For example, what read on eventfd
> does (zero a counter and return) is not like any semaphore I saw.

It is similar to Win32 events (which can be used like contorted mutexes 
to sync two processes).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20 15:56 Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-20 16:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:38   ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-20 17:44     ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:56       ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-21 17:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:55     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-20 18:06       ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-20 18:28         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 13:01           ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 13:36             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 13:40               ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 14:30                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 16:51                   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2009-08-24 18:25                   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-24 18:31                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-24 22:08                       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-24 22:10                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-24 22:32                           ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-25  6:59                             ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-25  4:26                         ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-24 21:49                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-24 22:15                       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-25  7:22                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-25 21:57                           ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 10:29                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-26 10:41                               ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 17:45                               ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 18:58                                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 19:13                                   ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 19:42                                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 19:44                                       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 23:30                                         ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27  4:13                                           ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-27  8:06                                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:20                                               ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 19:50                                       ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-26 20:04                                         ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27  5:25                                           ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-27  9:05                                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-27  9:09                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:21                                       ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 14:30                                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:38                                           ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 14:49                                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 15:29                                               ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 17:09                                                 ` Davide Libenzi

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