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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Catalin Vasile <catalinvasile92@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] eventfd_signal()
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 13:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554C9D0B.205@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMf8trkSoU0=pCS8PdakO2ZGEefdgJ3SyQfQExEZ3DZNP2coA@mail.gmail.com>



On 08/05/2015 12:58, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> Is eventfd blocking? By that I mean: If I signal the guest for
> something, will that thread remain blocked till the guest clears the
> interrupt?

No.  If you want that, write 2^64-2 to the eventfd and do a

   pfd.fd = ...
   pfd.events = POLLOUT;
   poll(&pfd, 1, -1);

after the write.

With this algorithm, a write will fail with EINVAL if there is already
another pending write somewhere.  The "poll" will still work after the
failed write.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-08 10:58 [Qemu-devel] eventfd_signal() Catalin Vasile
2015-05-08 11:24 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-05-08 11:32   ` Paolo Bonzini

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