On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Hu Yaohui <loki2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Anthony,
> Thanks for your reply! Could you please be more specific about this? Which
> flag,
>

You should read the virtio spec.  It's all clearly spelled out there.


> where can I find the research projects and papers that has virtio
> ,especiall virtio-blk, working in polling mode.
>

Look for papers on the ELVIS project.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


> Thanks for your time!
>
> Best Wishes,
> Yaohui Hu
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws>wrote:
>
>> Hi Yaohui,
>>
>> Yes, there is a flag associated both with the used and the avail rings to
>> disable notifications.  This can be used to implement polling.
>>
>> There have been multiple research projects/papers that have experimented
>> with polling.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Hu Yaohui <loki2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> I am wondering whether virtio has provided polling mode already. Instead
>>> of sending a event from guest to host through eventfd on guest side and
>>> inject an interrupt into guest on host side to notify each other? Could
>>> both sides keep polling the Vring to communicate with each other?
>>> Thanks for your time!
>>>
>>> Best Wishes,
>>> Yaohui
>>>
>>
>>
>

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