Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] virtio-pci: polling mode support

2011-11-02 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:02:42 +0200, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > MSIX spec requires that device can be operated with > all vectors masked, by polling. > > So the following patchset (lightly tested) adds this > ability: when driver reads ISR, the device > recalls a pending notification, and return

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/2] virtio-pci: polling mode support

2011-11-02 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
MSIX spec requires that device can be operated with all vectors masked, by polling. So the following patchset (lightly tested) adds this ability: when driver reads ISR, the device recalls a pending notification, and returns pending status in the ISR register. The polling driver can operate as fol