On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:28:03AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Of course it has to be documented, but this just follows vfio. > > Eventfd is a natural enough representation of an interrupt; both kvm and > vfio use it, and are also able to share the eventfd, allowing a vfio > interrupt to generate a kvm interrupt, without userspace intervention, and > one day without even kernel intervention.
That's nice and wonderful, but it's not how UIO works today, so this is now going to be a mix and match type interface, with no justification so far as to why to create this new api and exactly how this is all going to be used from userspace. Example code would be even better... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
