From: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
mst@redhat.com, avi@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH 3/4] eventfd: add generalized notifier interface
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:48:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3A8BF0.4020907@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0906181044160.32646@makko.or.mcafeemobile.com>
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
>
>> We currently open-code notification registration via the f_ops->poll()
>> method of the eventfd. Lets abstract this into a notification API
>> extension of eventfd, while still using the wait-queue as the underlying
>> mechanism. This will allow us to manage the notification mechanism
>> internal to eventfd without requiring the clients to change. This also
>> gives us the opportunity to implement race-free release() callbacks,
>> which we do later in the series.
>>
>
> Another attempt to push KVM stuff into eventfd.
Also, could you please detail how you expect someone to use the POLLHUP
release in a race free way without patches 3/4 + 4/4? That is not a KVM
specific problem either, afaict.
-Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-18 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-18 17:44 [KVM PATCH 0/4] irqfd fixes/enhancements Gregory Haskins
2009-06-18 17:44 ` [KVM PATCH 1/4] KVM: update inaccurate irqfd comment Gregory Haskins
2009-06-18 17:44 ` [KVM PATCH 2/4] KVM: fix irqfd error checking Gregory Haskins
2009-06-18 17:44 ` [KVM PATCH 3/4] eventfd: add generalized notifier interface Gregory Haskins
2009-06-18 17:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-06-18 18:46 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-06-18 18:48 ` Gregory Haskins [this message]
2009-06-18 17:44 ` [KVM PATCH 4/4] eventfd: add module reference counting support for registered notifiers Gregory Haskins
2009-06-21 12:56 ` [KVM PATCH 0/4] irqfd fixes/enhancements Avi Kivity
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