On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Gregory Haskins wrote: > This allows synchronous notifications to register with the eventfd > infrastructure. Unlike traditional vfs based eventfd readers, notifiees > do not implictly clear the counter on reception. However, the clearing > is primarily important to allowing threads to block waiting for events > anyway, so its an acceptable trade-off since blocking doesn't apply to > notifiers. Do you really need to add a notifier? Eventfd already has a wait queue, and we support callback-based wakeups, so is there any reason we shouldn't use those and rely on the already existing wakeups? - Davide -- 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
