From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:41:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B530578.80003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1001130927590.2775@makko.or.mcafeemobile.com>
On 01/13/2010 07:34 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> KVM needs a wait to atomically remove themselves from the eventfd ->poll()
> wait queue head, in order to handle correctly their IRQfd deassign
> operation.
> This patch introduces such API, plus a way to read an eventfd from its
> context.
> Andrew, they prefer to have this go through Avi's KVM tree, in order to
> keep dependencies localized. So you just ignore this.
> Avi, this fixes a few checkpatch warnings, so you should get this instead
> of the one posted previously.
>
>
>
Applied, thanks.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2010-01-13 17:34 [patch] eventfd - allow atomic read and waitqueue remove Davide Libenzi
2010-01-17 12:41 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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