Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756008AbZJAJcq (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:32:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755585AbZJAJcp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:32:45 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:13527 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755383AbZJAJcp (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:32:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:28:47 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: Avi Kivity Cc: Gregory Haskins , "Ira W. Snyder" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@zytor.com, Rusty Russell , s.hetze@linux-ag.com, alacrityvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 3/3] vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server Message-ID: <20091001092847.GG5718@redhat.com> References: <4ABA61D1.80703@gmail.com> <4ABA78DC.7070604@redhat.com> <4ABA8FDC.5010008@gmail.com> <4ABB1D44.5000007@redhat.com> <4ABBB46D.2000102@gmail.com> <4ABC7DCE.2000404@redhat.com> <4ABD36E3.9070503@gmail.com> <4ABF33B2.4000805@redhat.com> <4AC3B9C6.5090408@gmail.com> <4AC46989.7030502@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AC46989.7030502@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 747 Lines: 19 On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:34:17AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> Second, I do not use ioeventfd anymore because it has too many problems >> with the surrounding technology. However, that is a topic for a >> different thread. >> > > Please post your issues. I see ioeventfd/irqfd as critical kvm interfaces. I second that. AFAIK ioeventfd/irqfd got exposed to userspace in 2.6.32-rc1, if there are issues we better nail them before 2.6.32 is out. And yes, please start a different thread. -- MST -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/