Re: [PATCH 3/4] PF: Provide additional direct page notification

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Tue Jul 09 2013 - 12:02:57 EST


On 09/07/13 15:56, Dominik Dingel wrote:
> By setting a Kconfig option, the architecture can control when
> guest notifications will be presented by the apf backend.
> So there is the default batch mechanism, working as before, where the vcpu thread
> should pull in this information. On the other hand there is now the direct
> mechanism, this will directly push the information to the guest.
>
> Still the vcpu thread should call check_completion to cleanup leftovers,
> that leaves most of the common code untouched.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
for the "why". We want to use the existing architectured interface.

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