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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:03:13 +0300 From: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com> To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@...ell.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org> Subject: Re: [patch] eventfd - revised interface and cleanups On 06/23/2009 07:47 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: > The following patch changes the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd > memory context, from the file pointer instance. > Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the > POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away. > Also, now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead > of the file*. > Another cleanup this patch does, is making AIO select EVENTFD, instead of > adding a bunch of empty function stubs inside eventfd.h. > > Andrew, this better go via Avi and the KVM tree, since they have patches > that will be based on the new interface. > The kvm patches will only be ready for 2.6.32. Can this go in 2.6.31 now, and we'll meet in 10 weeks? -- 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 majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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