Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] tests: Add ivshmem qtest

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:23:08PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 03.04.2014 13:16, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 05:15:59PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> Il 02/04/2014 17:15, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> >>> Yes and I think this someone was you actually.
> >>> Can something similar be done for this test?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think ivshmem depends on ioeventfd, doesn't it?  So short of
> >> implementing ioeventfd for TCG, no.
> >>
> >> Paolo
> > 
> > Okay so will make check just fail on a non kvm host?
> 
> Yes, this test fails on FreeBSD for instance, therefore this is a
> non-polished RFC. I'm hoping for comments how to best make it not crash.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas

Well we could work around this
        - start machine with kvm or without if not supported
        - query ioeventfd support


But maybe it's easier to implement eventfd APIs ...

> -- 
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
> GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg