On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 06:31 -0700, Avi Kivity wrote: > Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Set the VIRTIO_F_NOTIFY_ON_EMPTY feature bit so the > > guest can rely on us notifying them when the queue > > is empty. > > > > Also, only notify when the available queue is empty > > *and* when we've finished with all the buffers we > > had detached. Right now, when the queue is empty, > > we notify the guest for every used buffer. > > > > This is a bit inflexible. I would prefer a mechanism where the guest > tells us at what queue index it would like the notification, like Xen. > If it wants it on queue empty, it just sets the index appropriately. > > Or is the usage in the drivers already upstream and I have no choice > about applying this?
Something like that :-) commits: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b4f68be6c5d507afdcd74f5be3df0b1209cda503 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=363f15149cfba67d29f1e6a6103dda079f27f3fa http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=20887611523e749d99cc7d64ff6c97d27529fbae Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
