From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
gleb@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:06:51 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8D90BB.2030506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090820175540.GA9232@redhat.com>
On 08/20/2009 08:55 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
>> While we could argue about this my feeling is that we should drop this,
>> at least until we can quantify what benefit it has and whether there are
>> any Davide-acceptable alternatives.
>>
>> In the meanwhile, we can let vhost-net support edge-triggered interrupts
>> only, let qemu terminate those eventfds and convert then to
>> level-triggered interrupts (which it can then inject using the existing
>> ioctl). It will keep vhost-net and kvm simpler at the cost of some
>> performance penalty to guests using level interrupts. These suck anyway
>> so we'll point users at msi.
>>
> I thought the point was to move assigned devices out of KVM?
>
Grr. Forgot about that.
That's much more important.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-20 15:56 [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: new EFD_STATE flag Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-20 16:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-20 17:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-21 17:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-20 17:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-20 18:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-08-20 18:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 13:01 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 13:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-23 14:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-23 16:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-24 18:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-24 18:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-24 22:08 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-24 22:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-24 22:32 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-25 6:59 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-25 4:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-24 21:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-24 22:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-25 7:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-25 21:57 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 10:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-26 10:41 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 17:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 18:58 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 19:13 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 19:42 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-26 19:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 23:30 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 4:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-08-27 8:06 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:20 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-26 19:50 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-26 20:04 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 5:25 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-08-27 9:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-27 9:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 14:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 14:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 14:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-08-27 15:29 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-08-27 17:09 ` Davide Libenzi
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