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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,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Subject: Re: [KVM PATCH v9 2/2] KVM: add iosignalfd support
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:27:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A533F45.90609@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090707122250.GC3647@redhat.com>

On 07/07/2009 03:22 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:53:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>>>> +		/* address-range must be precise for a hit */
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> So there's apparently no way to specify that
>>> you want 1,2, or 4 byte writes at address X?
>>>
>>>        
>> Why would you want that?
>>      
>
> Donnu. Why would anyone want to catch 8 byte writes at all?
>    

One of the natural write sizes.

> Seriously, why add artificial limitations?
> IMO, addr=0,len=1 and addr=0,len=2 should not conflict.
>
>    

They should not conflict, but a two byte write need not hit a one byte 
registration.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 20:33 [KVM PATCH v9 0/2] iosignalfd Gregory Haskins
2009-07-06 20:33 ` [KVM PATCH v9 1/2] KVM: make io_bus interface more robust Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 11:20   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 17:26     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-08  7:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-08 11:40         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-06 20:33 ` [KVM PATCH v9 2/2] KVM: add iosignalfd support Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 11:20   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 11:53     ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07 12:22       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 12:27         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-07-07 12:51           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 12:56             ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 13:21               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 13:30                 ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 12:56             ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07 13:17       ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 12:15     ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07 12:48       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 12:56         ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-07 12:58           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-07 13:16         ` Gregory Haskins
2009-07-07  9:22 ` [KVM PATCH v9 0/2] iosignalfd Avi Kivity

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