Re: [PATCH 3/4] PF: Provide additional direct page notification

[Alexander Graf]

On 09.07.2013, at 18:01, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> On 09/07/13 15:56, Dominik Dingel wrote:
>> By setting a Kconfig option, the architecture can control when
>> guest notifications will be presented by the apf backend.
>> So there is the default batch mechanism, working as before, where the vcpu thread
>> should pull in this information. On the other hand there is now the direct
>> mechanism, this will directly push the information to the guest.
>> 
>> Still the vcpu thread should call check_completion to cleanup leftovers,
>> that leaves most of the common code untouched.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Dominik Dingel <dingel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> for the "why". We want to use the existing architectured interface.

Shouldn't this be a runtime option?


Alex

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