From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] eventfd: allow atomic read and waitqueue remove
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:14:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B588B5D.8050802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B588B29.2050100@redhat.com>
On 01/21/2010 07:13 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>
> But I think we can solve this in another way in .32: we can clear the
> eventfd from irqfd->inject work, which is in process context. The new
> stuff is only needed for lockless clearing, no?
>
I meant atomic clearing, when we inject interrupts from the irqfd atomic
context.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-21 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-21 16:26 [PATCHv2 1/3] eventfd: allow atomic read and waitqueue remove Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-21 16:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-01-21 17:13 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 17:14 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-01-21 17:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-21 17:33 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 17:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-21 17:47 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 17:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-21 17:56 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 17:57 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 18:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2010-01-24 11:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-21 17:50 ` Davide Libenzi
2010-01-21 17:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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