Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:59:46 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v9 1/2] kvm: Use a reserved IRQ source ID for irqfd |
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On 09/05/2012 05:51 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:35:43PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/22/2012 03:41 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >> >> >> I assumed you were pointing out the level vs edge interaction. If we >> >> call that a userspace bug, I can just drop this. Thanks, >> >> >> >> Alex >> > >> > level is userspace bug I think :) >> >> I don't see how it's a bug. Suppose we have a vfio device that shares a >> gsi with an emulated device. The emulated device naturally uses >> KVM_IRQ_LINE (it has no need to re-sample on ADN), while vfio naturally >> has to use irqfd. > > Absolutely. But vfio needs to use irqfd with the new flag. > Using existing irqfd for level is a bug.
I see we're not reusing this irq source id for level irqfd. But I think we should, there's no need for per-gsi irq source id. Plus I'd like to fix the theoretical bug even if it doesn't bite in practice.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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