From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
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: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:58:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9585EC.2030505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908261040100.7780@makko.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On 08/26/2009 08:45 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> OK, if I get it correctly, there is one eventfd signaler (the device), and
> one eventfd reader (the hypervisor), right?
> Each hypervisor listens for multiple devices detecting state changes, and
> associating the eventfd "line" to the IRQ number by some configuration
> (ala PCI), right?
>
Yes. The PCI stuff happens in userspace, all the hypervisor sees is
"this eventfd is IRQ 10". There may be multiple eventfds routed to one
IRQ (corresponding to a shared IRQ line).
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 18:58 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
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 [this message]
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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