On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:06:05PM +0900, Tetsuya Mukawa wrote: > Currently, default values of kickfd and callfd are -1. > If the values are -1, current code guesses kickfd and callfd haven't > been initialized yet. And vhost library will guess the virtqueue isn't > ready for processing. > But callfd and kickfd will be set as -1 when "--enable-kvm" > isn't specified in QEMU command line. It means we cannot treat -1 as > uninitialized state. The patch changes default values to -2. And the > patch defines -2 as VIRTIO_UNINITIALIZED_EVENTFD.
This looks more like a workaround to me. Besides, this patch would make following fail: eventfd_write(vq->callfd, (eventfd_t)1); --yliu