Re: [RFC PATCH 0/4] ARM: KVM: Enable the ioeventfd capability of KVM on ARM

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On 10 April 2014 09:58, Antonios Motakis
<a.motakis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Though in this case, what makes IRQ routing support useful is not any
> particular feature it enables, but how it is used as a standard
> interface towards in-kernel IRQ chips for KVM. The eventfd support in
> KVM makes heavy use of that, so IRQ routing gives us IRQFDs without
> having to completely butcher all the eventfd and irqfd code.

I think you should propose a concrete API and give examples
of how userspace would be using it; these abstract discussions
aren't really coming together in my head. Can the kernel
just set up the initial routing mapping as 1:1 so userspace
can ignore the pointless extra level of indirection?

thanks
-- PMM
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