Re: [PATCH V6 6/6] kvm: add fast mmio capabilitiy

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Sep 15 2015 - 12:47:29 EST




On 15/09/2015 18:44, Cornelia Huck wrote:
>> > Can you explain why? If there is any non-zero valid length, "wildcard
>> > length" (represented by zero) would also make sense.
> What is a wildcard match supposed to mean in this case? The datamatch
> field contains the queue index for the device specified in the address
> field. The hypercall interface associated with the eventfd always has
> device + queue index in its parameters; there is no interface for
> "notify device with all its queues".

Ah, I see. Because all valid virtio-ccw ioeventfds are datamatch, no
valid virtio-ccw ioeventfd is wildcard-length.

Paolo
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