From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Haskins Subject: [KVM-RFC PATCH 0/2] eventfd enhancements for irqfd/iosignalfd Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:29:51 -0400 Message-ID: <20090616022041.23890.90120.stgit@dev.haskins.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, davidel@xmailserver.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from victor.provo.novell.com ([137.65.250.26]:42572 "EHLO victor.provo.novell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751372AbZFPC37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:29:59 -0400 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: (Applies to kvm.git/master:c27b64a0) For more details, please read the patch headers. This series adds a new feature to eventfd (explicit notifications) which addresses wqh based limitations, as well as provides fixes for several issues in irqfd pointed out by Michael Tsirkin. You can find reference to these issues here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/15/218 http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/11/249 This series has been tested against the kvm-eventfd unit test, and appears to be functioning properly. You can download this test here: ftp://ftp.novell.com/dev/ghaskins/kvm-eventfd.tar.bz2 --- Gregory Haskins (2): eventfd: add module reference counting support for registered notifiers eventfd: add an explicit srcu based notifier interface fs/eventfd.c | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/eventfd.h | 33 +++++++++++++ virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 3 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) -- Signature