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Message-ID: <20120816170100.GC22518@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:01:00 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, gleb@...hat.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/6] kvm: level irqfd support

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:54:04PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 07:54 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:39:35PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> On 08/16/2012 07:36 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> What if a level irqfd shares a line with a KVM_IRQ_LINE ioctl?  Then an
> >> >> EOI can de-assert the irqfd source, but the line is kept high by the
> >> >> last KVM_IRQ_LINE invocation.
> >> > 
> >> > Exactly. So 1 ID for userspace and 1 for irqfd.
> >> 
> >> Gaa, this mess belongs in userspace.
> > 
> > Not sure I understand what you refer to.
> > 
> > I meant simply
> > #define KVM_IRQFD_IRQ_SOURCE_ID    1
> > request it at kvm init.
> > 
> > As opposed to using KVM_USERSPACE_IRQ_SOURCE_ID like we do now
> > for edge.
> > Does this seem acceptable to you?
> 
> I meant the pic/ioapic, not this particular bit.

:)

> 
> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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