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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/3] eventfd: allow atomic read and waitqueue remove
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:47:40 +0200
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On 01/21/2010 07:32 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
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>> Can't you read from the file?
>>      
> IMO no, the read could block.
>    

But you're in process context.  An eventfd never blocks.

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