Hi Anthony, Thanks for your reply! Could you please be more specific about this? Which flag, where can I find the research projects and papers that has virtio ,especiall virtio-blk, working in polling mode. Thanks for your time!
Best Wishes, Yaohui Hu On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws>wrote: > Hi Yaohui, > > Yes, there is a flag associated both with the used and the avail rings to > disable notifications. This can be used to implement polling. > > There have been multiple research projects/papers that have experimented > with polling. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Hu Yaohui <loki2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I am wondering whether virtio has provided polling mode already. Instead >> of sending a event from guest to host through eventfd on guest side and >> inject an interrupt into guest on host side to notify each other? Could >> both sides keep polling the Vring to communicate with each other? >> Thanks for your time! >> >> Best Wishes, >> Yaohui >> > >