Re: [KVM PATCH v2 2/2] kvm: add support for irqfd via eventfd-notificationinterface

[Avi Kivity]

Gregory Haskins wrote:

 

> > Sure, the interface remains the same (write 8 bytes), but the
> > implementation can change.  For example, we can implement it to work
> > from interrupt context, once we hack the locking appropriately.
> >     
>
> I was thinking more along the lines of eventfd_signal().  AIO and vbus
> currently use this interface, as opposed to the more polymorhpic
> f_ops->write().
>
>   

But eventfd_signal basically marries us to eventfd.

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