From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759204Ab0DBGoU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 02:44:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32989 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758761Ab0DBGoM (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2010 02:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4BB59237.90203@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:44:07 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100301 Fedora/3.0.3-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lyon CC: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes References: <201003311708.38961.pugs@lyon-about.com> <201004010839.07451.pugs@lyon-about.com> <4BB4C1A6.8050904@redhat.com> <201004011427.07353.pugs@lyon-about.com> In-Reply-To: <201004011427.07353.pugs@lyon-about.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/02/2010 12:27 AM, Tom Lyon wrote: > >> kvm really wants the event counter to be an eventfd, that allows hooking >> it directly to kvm (which can inject an interrupt on an eventfd_signal), >> can you adapt your patch to do this? >> > I looked further into eventfds - they seem the perfect solution for the > MSI/MSI-X interrupts. Will include in V2. > They are indeed. Thanks. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.