Re: [PATCH 5/5] ioeventfd: Introduce KVM_IOEVENTFD_FLAG_SOCKET

Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-07-14T08:25:18Z

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:09:57AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> I'm talking about the real world. Is any of this something that
> needs optimization?

This work might help enable vhost support for non-MSI guests
(required for linux 2.6.30 and back). It's not enough
for that though: we would also need level interrupt
support in irqfd. That might be doable by using
sockets for irqfd in a similar way.

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