Re: [PATCH RFC] pass write value to in_range pointers

[Avi Kivity]

On 06/23/2009 02:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:04:06AM -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>    
> > > >   It will also need to support
> > > > multiple matches.
> > > >
> > > >          
> > > What, signal many fds on the same address/value pair?
> > > I see this as a bug. Why is this a good thing to support?
> > > Just increases the chance of leaking this fd.
> > >
> > >        
> > I believe Avi asked for this feature specifically, so I will defer to him.
> >      
>
> Hmm. That's hard to implement in my model. Avi, can we give up
> this feature? I don't think anyone needs this specifically ...
>    

I think we can make do with passing that single eventfd to multiple 
consumers.  It means their event count reads may return zero, but I 
guess we can live with that.

I do want to retain flexibility in how we route events.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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