Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Inter-VM shared memory PCI device

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Cam Macdonell wrote:
> An irqfd can only trigger a single vector in a guest.  Right now I
> only have one eventfd per guest.    So ioeventfd/irqfd restricts the
> current implementation to a single vector that a guest can trigger.
> Without irqfd, eventfds can be used like registers a write the number
> of the vector they want to trigger, but as you point out it is racy.

It's not racy if you use a pipe instead of eventfd. :-)

Actually, why not?  A byte pipe between guests would be more versatile.

Could it even integrate with virtio-serial, somehow?

-- Jamie

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