From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
davidel@xmailserver.org, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v10] kvm: add support for irqfd
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:23:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A34F9D8.5040306@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090614131937.GA10646@redhat.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> I think Avi asked for this specific feature during review which is the
>> reason why its there today. However, I agree that it would probably be
>> a good idea to put an upper limit on the number of supported aliases
>> that can be registered. Will fix.
>>
>> Thanks Michael,
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Avi, can you elaborate on why do we want to map multiple fds
> to the same gsi? I think it's better to allow a 1:1 mapping
> only: if many processes want to trigger interrupts they can
> all write to the same fd.
>
I don't want to assume that the eventfds all come from the same source.
That said, we have a workaround, allocate a new gsi with the same routes
and attach the excess eventfds there.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-14 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-20 14:30 [KVM PATCH v10] kvm: add support for irqfd Gregory Haskins
2009-05-20 14:35 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26 16:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-26 18:05 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-05-26 20:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-05-27 13:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-27 14:06 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-05-27 14:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] kvm: validate irqfd type Gregory Haskins
2009-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] eventfd: export eventfd interfaces for module use Gregory Haskins
2009-05-27 14:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: validate irqfd type Gregory Haskins
2009-05-27 15:06 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Gregory Haskins
2009-05-31 9:36 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-27 18:41 ` [KVM PATCH v10] kvm: add support for irqfd Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-27 19:28 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-05-27 20:07 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-05-27 20:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-05-27 20:46 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-11 13:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-11 13:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 12:25 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-14 13:20 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 9:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 12:40 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-14 13:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 13:23 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-06-14 13:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-06-14 13:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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