Davide, Looks like I got an ack from Avi and no comments from others, so the following patchset is identical to the last RFC. Can it be merged for 2.6.32? Thanks! This series implements a new EFD_STATE flag for eventfd. When set, this changes eventfd behaviour in the following way: - write simply stores the value written, and is always non-blocking - read unblocks when the value written changes, and returns the value written Motivation: we'd like to use eventfd in qemu to pass interrupts from (emulated or assigned) devices to guest. For level interrupts, the counter supported currently by eventfd is not a good match: we really need to set interrupt to a level, typically 0 or 1, wake the guest if there was a change and give the guest ability to see the last value written. The level can be set either from kernel (e.g. with assigned devices) or from userspace. Michael S. Tsirkin (2): eventfd: reorganize the code to simplify new flags eventfd: EFD_STATE flag fs/eventfd.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- include/linux/eventfd.h | 3 +- 2 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- 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
