Re: [RFC PATCH] kvm: Extend irqfd to support level interrupts

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On 06/18/2012 01:11 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

>> (vhost,
>> msi-less ivshmem clone)?
> 
> I guess vhost can poll eventfd and reinject an interrupt.
> Of course to bypass qemu completely we also need to support reads over
> ioeventfd somehow.
> 

eventfd is not suitable for level triggered interrupts as far as I can
tell.  It's about passing edges, and level interrupts aren't.  We need
something like a pipe for communicating state (or just use KVM_IRQ_LINE).


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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