Re: [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes

Avi Kivity
2010-04-02T06:44:12Z

On 04/02/2010 12:27 AM, Tom Lyon wrote:
>
>> kvm really wants the event counter to be an eventfd, that allows hooking
>> it directly to kvm (which can inject an interrupt on an eventfd_signal),
>> can you adapt your patch to do this?
>>
> I looked further into eventfds - they seem the perfect solution for the
> MSI/MSI-X interrupts. Will include in V2.
>

They are indeed. Thanks.

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