On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:09:10AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2011-10-21 00:02, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > >>> Yes. But this still makes an API for acquiring per-vector resources a > >>> requirement. > >> > >> Yes, but a different one than current use/unuse. > > > > What's wrong with use/unuse as an API? It's already in place > > and virtio calls it. > > Not for that purpose. > It remains a useless API in the absence of KVM's > requirements. >
Sorry, I don't understand. This can acquire whatever resources necessary. It does not seem to make sense to rip it out only to add a different one back in. > > > >> And it will be an > >> optional one, only for those devices that need to establish irq/eventfd > >> channels. > >> > >> Jan > > > > Not sure this should be up to the device. > > The device provides the fd. At least it acquires and associates it. > > Jan It would surely be beneficial to be able to have a uniform API so that devices don't need to be recoded to be moved in this way. > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
