On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 16:45 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > The virtio ABI is fixed, so we couldn't e.g. have the guest use a cookie > > to identify a queue - it's just going to continue using a per-device > > queue number. > > Actually, I was originally thinking this would be exposed as a virtio > FEATURE bit anyway, so there were no backwards-compat constraints. That > said, we can possibly make it work in a backwards compat way, too. > IIRC, today virtio does a PIO cycle to a specific register with the > queue-id when it wants to signal guest->host, right? What is the width > of the write? It's a 16-bit write. /* A 16-bit r/w queue notifier */ #define VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY 16 > > So, if the cookie was also the trigger, we'd need an > > eventfd per device. > > > > I'm having trouble parsing this one. The cookie namespace is controlled > by the userspace component that owns the corresponding IO address, so > there's no reason you can't make "queue-id = 0" use cookie = 0, or > whatever. That said, I still think a separation of the cookie and > trigger as suggested above is a good idea, so its probably moot to > discuss this point further. Ah, my mistake - I thought the cookie was returned to userspace when the eventfd was signalled, but no ... userspace only gets an event counter value and the cookie is used during de-assignment to distinguish between iosignalfds. Okay, so suppose you do assign multiple times at a given address - you're presumably going to use a different eventfd for each assignment? If so, can't we match using both the address and eventfd at de-assignment and drop the cookie from the interface altogether? i.e. to replace the virtio queue notify with this, we'd: 1) create an eventfd per queue 2) assign each of those eventfds to the QUEUE_NOTIFY address 3) have only one of the eventfds be triggered, depending on what value is written by the guest 4) de-assign using the address/eventfd pair to distinguish between assignments Cheers, Mark. -- 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