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SubjectRe: [RFC] eventfd: add EFD_AUTORESET flag
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On 12/02/20 11:29, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 09:31:32AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> On 29/01/20 18:20, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>> + /* Semaphore semantics don't make sense when autoreset is enabled */
>>> + if ((flags & EFD_SEMAPHORE) && (flags & EFD_AUTORESET))
>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>
>> I think they do, you just want to subtract 1 instead of setting the
>> count to 0. This way, writing 1 would be the post operation on the
>> semaphore, while poll() would be the wait operation.
>
> True! Then EFD_AUTORESET is not a fitting name. EFD_AUTOREAD or
> EFD_POLL_READS?

Avi's suggestion also makes sense. Switching the event loop from poll()
to IORING_OP_POLL_ADD would be good on its own, and then you could make
it use IORING_OP_READV for eventfds.

In QEMU parlance, perhaps you need a different abstraction than
EventNotifier (let's call it WakeupNotifier) which would also use
eventfd but it would provide a smaller API. Thanks to the smaller API,
it would not need EFD_NONBLOCK, unlike the regular EventNotifier, and it
could either set up a poll() handler calling read(), or use
IORING_OP_READV when io_uring is in use.

Paolo


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