On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/23/2009 07:47 PM, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > The following patch changes the eventfd interface to de-couple the eventfd > > memory context, from the file pointer instance. > > Without such change, there is no clean way to racely free handle the > > POLLHUP event sent when the last instance of the file* goes away. > > Also, now the internal eventfd APIs are using the eventfd context instead > > of the file*. > > Another cleanup this patch does, is making AIO select EVENTFD, instead of > > adding a bunch of empty function stubs inside eventfd.h. > > > > Andrew, this better go via Avi and the KVM tree, since they have patches > > that will be based on the new interface. > > > > The kvm patches will only be ready for 2.6.32. Can this go in 2.6.31 now, and > we'll meet in 10 weeks? Either ways works for me. Meanwhile, I'll repost with the revised documentation format. - 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
