Re: [PATCH v1] ARM/ARM64: support KVM_IOEVENTFD

2014-11-22 Thread Ming Lei
Hi Eric, Thanks for your FYI. On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Eric Auger eric.au...@linaro.org wrote: Hi Ming, for your information there is a series written by Antonios (added in CC) https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-March/008416.html exactly on the same topic. The

Re: [PATCH v1] ARM/ARM64: support KVM_IOEVENTFD

2014-11-21 Thread Eric Auger
Hi Ming, for your information there is a series written by Antonios (added in CC) https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/pipermail/kvmarm/2014-March/008416.html exactly on the same topic. The thread was reactivated by Nikolay latterly on Nov (see

[PATCH v1] ARM/ARM64: support KVM_IOEVENTFD

2014-11-18 Thread Ming Lei
From Documentation/virtual/kvm/api.txt, all ARCHs should support ioeventfd. Also ARM VM has supported PCI bus already, and ARM64 will do too, ioeventfd is required for some popular devices, like virtio-blk and virtio-scsi dataplane in QEMU. Without this patch, virtio-blk-pci dataplane can't work