Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm tools: Fix virtio console hangs by removing IRQ injection for tx path

2011-05-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Asias He asias.he...@gmail.com wrote: As virtio spec says: Because this is high importance and low bandwidth, the current Linux implementation polls for the buffer to be used, rather than waiting for an interrupt, simplifying the implementation signicantly.

Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvm tools: Fix virtio console hangs by removing IRQ injection for tx path

2011-05-08 Thread Asias He
On 05/08/2011 02:22 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Asias He asias.he...@gmail.com wrote: As virtio spec says: Because this is high importance and low bandwidth, the current Linux implementation polls for the buffer to be used, rather than waiting for an interrupt, simplifying the

[PATCH 4/4] kvm tools: Fix virtio console hangs by removing IRQ injection for tx path

2011-05-07 Thread Asias He
As virtio spec says: Because this is high importance and low bandwidth, the current Linux implementation polls for the buffer to be used, rather than waiting for an interrupt, simplifying the implementation signicantly. drivers/char/virtio_console.c send_buf() { ... /* Tell Host