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Hi Christian,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koenig, Christian <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2026 6:56 PM
> To: SHANMUGAM, SRINIVASAN <[email protected]>;
> Deucher, Alexander <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 06/11] drm/amdgpu: Make EVENTFD subscriptions queue-
> aware
>
> On 6/3/26 18:33, Srinivasan Shanmugam wrote:
> > The current EVENTFD manager matches subscriptions only by event
> > identifier.  That is enough for coarse notification, but it does not
> > support the queue-scoped routing needed by queue completion style
> > events.
> >
> > Extend the subscription key from a single event identifier to the pair
> > (event_type, queue_id).
> >
> > For device/GPU-scoped events, queue_id is 0.  For queue-scoped events,
> > queue_id selects the queue-specific subscription.
> >
> > EVENTFD remains notification-only.
> >
> > Also fix the queue-aware bind path to compute the packed subscription
> > key before lookup/insert, and allow fd 0 by rejecting only negative
> > file descriptors.
> >
> > This change keeps the existing manager design and binding model
> > intact, while making queue_id meaningful for queue-scoped wakeups.
>
> Yeah that doesn't work like this.
>
> The queue_id is just an identifier for the UAPI and can be re-used.
>
> So you can't put that as key in the amdgpu_eventfd_id structure.
>
> I suggest to convert the queue_id into the global doorbell id or put the 
> eventfd
> manager on the queue itself instead of the fpriv.

I understand the issue now. Since queue_id is just a UAPI handle and can be 
reused after a queue is destroyed, I understand that we should use the 
refcounted queue object instead of storing queue_id in the EVENTFD subscription.

One clarification pls: would you prefer the EVENTFD subscription itself to hold 
the queue reference and release it during unbind/teardown, or should USERQ 
resolve queue_id to the queue object and keep EVENTFD as a generic notification 
layer?

I can implement either approach. I just wanted to confirm which direction you 
had in mind.

Best regards,
Srini


>
> Regards,
> Christian.

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