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Re: [Qemu-devel] eventfd_signal()
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] eventfd_signal() |
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Fri, 08 May 2015 13:24:59 +0200 |
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On 08/05/2015 12:58, Catalin Vasile wrote:
> Is eventfd blocking? By that I mean: If I signal the guest for
> something, will that thread remain blocked till the guest clears the
> interrupt?
No. If you want that, write 2^64-2 to the eventfd and do a
pfd.fd = ...
pfd.events = POLLOUT;
poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
after the write.
With this algorithm, a write will fail with EINVAL if there is already
another pending write somewhere. The "poll" will still work after the
failed write.
Paolo