Re: [PATCH RFC] kvm: enable irq injection from interrupt context

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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:55:12PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:56:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  On 09/19/2010 12:45 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:59:29AM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > >>  >  writing 0 to eventfd does nothing. The way to deassert irq
> > >>  That is implementation detail of current irqfd. It was designed for MSI
> > >>  not level triggered interrupts.
> > >
> > >Maybe we should add a check that gsi is mapped to MSI (or unmapped) then?
> > >Level which switches to 1 and back to 0 immediately will be racy anyway
> > >...
> > >
> > 
> > Add a check where?
> 
> I would make sure that if you bind irqfd to a non-MSI GSI,
> signalling it has no effect.
> 
Why would you do that? I am not against checking per se, but why a user of
the API can't check for that?

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			Gleb.
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