On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 03:31:58PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > The ioeventfd here is actually irqfd handling of an ioeventfd such as > supported in KVM. A user is able to pre-program a device write to > occur when the eventfd triggers. This is yet another instance of > eventfd-irqfd triggering between KVM and vfio. The impetus for this > is high frequency writes to pages which are virtualized in QEMU. > Enabling this near-direct write path for selected registers within > the virtualized page can improve performance and reduce overhead. > Specifically this is initially targeted at NVIDIA graphics cards where > the driver issues a write to an MMIO register within a virtualized > region in order to allow the MSI interrupt to re-trigger. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Peter Xu
