On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:52:06AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> For use cases where you are exposing metadata from the host to the guest >> this would be a very convenient approach indeed. As asked elsewhere in this >> thread, my main thought would be about how well it suits a application that >> wants a generic stream based connection between host & guest ? >> Efficient integration into a poll(2) based event loop would be key to >> that. > > You mean for a very large number of files (determining which property > has changed?). > I think what Daniel means is that for file to have stream semantic it is not enough to ignore offset on read/write, but poll also should behave similar to how it behaves with char device fd. With regular files poll will always report that fd is ready for I/O. -- Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
