Re: [patch] eventfd - revised interface and cleanups

Avi Kivity
2009-06-23T17:03:00Z

On 06/23/2009 07:47 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> The following patch changes the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd
> memory context, from the file pointer instance.
> Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the
> POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away.
> Also, now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead
> of the file*.
> Another cleanup this patch does, is making AIO select EVENTFD, instead of
> adding a bunch of empty function stubs inside eventfd.h.
>
> Andrew, this better go via Avi and the KVM tree, since they have patches
> that will be based on the new interface.
>

The kvm patches will only be ready for 2.6.32. Can this go in 2.6.31
now, and we'll meet in 10 weeks?

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