Re: [PATCH 0/3] RFC: virtual device as irq injection interface

Gregory Haskins
2009-06-01T12:14:42Z

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Gregory Haskins wrote:
>> A potential compromise is to investigate the POLLHUP technique that
>> Davide mentioned so that kvmfd can get notified of the closure without
>> needing an additional explicit ioctl to do it. Note that we already
>> have irqfd in the tree so I assume we would need to do this in a ABI
>> friendly way, but its possible.
>>
>
> We don't have irqfd in any released tree. I'm only submitting it for
> 2.6.32 (exactly so we can iron these things out), so we can change it
> any way we like or even pull it out completely.
>
> The POLLHUP stuff is something I'd like to see in.
>
Ah, perfect. I will submit a patch to implement this, then.

Thanks,
-Greg

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