From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
avi@redhat.com, davidel@xmailserver.org
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v3 0/2] irqfd
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:10:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428231002.919419dd.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427182540.6646.96740.stgit@dev.haskins.net>
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:33:24 -0400 Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> wrote:
> (Applies to kvm.git 41b76d8d0487c26d6d4d3fe53c1ff59b3236f096)
>
> This series implements a mechanism called "irqfd". It lets you create
> an eventfd based file-desriptor to inject interrupts to a kvm guest. We
> associate one gsi per fd for fine-grained routing.
It'd be nice if the KVM weenies amongst us were to be told why one
would want to inject interrupts into a KVM guest. Monosyllabic words
would be preferred ;)
> We do not have a user of this interface in this series, though note
> future version of virtual-bus (v4 and above) will be based on this.
So I assume that this patchset will be merged if/when a user of it is
merged?
> The first patch will require mainline buy-in, particularly from Davide
> (cc'd). The last patch is kvm specific.
Three EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s. Once the shouting has subsided I'd suggest
that this be merged via the KVM tree.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-29 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 18:33 [KVM PATCH v3 0/2] irqfd Gregory Haskins
2009-04-27 18:33 ` [KVM PATCH v3 1/2] eventfd: export fget and signal interfaces for module use Gregory Haskins
2009-04-27 18:33 ` [KVM PATCH v3 2/2] kvm: add support for irqfd via eventfd-notification interface Gregory Haskins
2009-04-30 13:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-03 16:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-03 19:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-03 19:17 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-03 19:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-03 6:44 ` Al Viro
2009-05-03 18:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-05-03 19:01 ` Al Viro
2009-05-03 19:22 ` file descriptor abuses Al Viro
2009-05-03 20:11 ` [KVM PATCH v3 2/2] kvm: add support for irqfd via eventfd-notification interface Davide Libenzi
2009-05-03 20:31 ` Al Viro
2009-04-29 6:10 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-04-29 8:18 ` [KVM PATCH v3 0/2] irqfd Avi Kivity
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