On 07/03/2012 10:21 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > Here's the latest iteration of adding an interface to assert and > de-assert level interrupts from external drivers like vfio. These > apply on top of the previous argument cleanup, documentation, and > sanitization patches for irqfd. It would be great to get this queued > in next for linux 3.6. > > I believe I've addressed all the previous comments, including fixing > the locking problems in eoifd. I've run this with lockdep adding > and removing level irqfd/eoifd pairs without any problems. Please > let me know if there are any further comments. Thanks,
Is there any performance justification for level irqfd? Don't all new/high bandwidth devices support msi, and this is just a legacy path? eoifd does add new functionality (which parallels the existing ack notifier usage in kvm device assignment); it's not just an optimization. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- 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/
