Re: [PATCH 0/1] uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privilegedprocesses

[Avi Kivity]

On 04/01/2010 06:39 PM, Tom Lyon wrote:
> > > - support for MSI and MSI-X interrupts (the intel 82599 VFs support only
> > > MSI-X)
> > >        
> > How does a userspace program receive those interrupts?
> >      
> Same as other UIO drivers - by read()ing an event counter.
>    

IIRC the usual event counter is /dev/uioX, what's your event counter now?

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?

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