[Qemu-devel] Re: [patch uq/master 1/2] virtio-pci: wake up iothread on VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY

[Avi Kivity]

On 02/22/2010 03:59 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY is used to inform availability of new buffers,
> so wakeup the iothread to process that information immediately.
>
> Reported-by: Amit Shah<address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti<address@hidden>
>
> Index: qemu/hw/virtio-pci.c
> ===================================================================
> --- qemu.orig/hw/virtio-pci.c
> +++ qemu/hw/virtio-pci.c
> @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ static void virtio_ioport_write(void *op
>           break;
>       case VIRTIO_PCI_QUEUE_NOTIFY:
>           virtio_queue_notify(vdev, val);
> +        qemu_notify_event();
>           break;
>    

virtio_queue_notify() will call ->handle_output(), which should either 
do what's needed to be done, or wake up some iothread itself.

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