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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: Support ioeventfd
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:56:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <507D3D4D.2090507@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350302566-28889-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

On 10/15/2012 02:02 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> In order to support vhost, we need to be able to support ioeventfd.
> 
> This patch set adds support for ioeventfd to PPC and makes it possible to
> do so without implementing irqfd along the way, as it requires an in-kernel
> irqchip which we don't have yet.

It's not strictly required.  You have an interrupt line leading to the
core, no?  You could have your irqfd trigger that.


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-10-16 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 12:02 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: Support ioeventfd Alexander Graf
2012-10-15 12:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: Distangle eventfd code from irqchip Alexander Graf
2012-10-16 10:57   ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-16 11:01     ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-15 12:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: PPC: Support eventfd Alexander Graf
2012-10-16 10:56 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-10-16 10:59   ` [PATCH 0/2] KVM: PPC: Support ioeventfd Alexander Graf
2012-10-16 11:01     ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-16 11:06       ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-16 13:47         ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-16 14:49           ` Alexander Graf
2012-10-17 14:50             ` Avi Kivity
2012-10-17 17:23               ` Alexander Graf

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