Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:28:54 +0300
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       avi@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] eventfd: add internal reference counting to fix
	notifier race conditions
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 03:26:41PM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:51:42AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> >   
> >> A file* based kernel-to-kernel interface is rather wrong IMO.
> >>     
> >
> > But eventfd_ctx should work fine.
> >   
> 
> Yeah, and I guess we can always just say that qemu can't close the fd or
> something.  Seems hacky, but it might work if Davide insists we need his
> change.

Yes, I think that's fine.

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