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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Revert "posix-aio-compat: avoid signal race when spawning a thread"
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:33:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007163329.GA10857@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ACCC1A5.5020306@codemonkey.ws>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:28:21AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> There's nothing to review in this particular case, the thing was plain
>> broken, besides same thing was already discussed between me and
>> Andrzej, see for instance:
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg09542.html
>>
>> Needless to say the revert is broken also.
>>   
>
> Yeah, I understand the race the original commit fixes but I don't  
> understand how the original commit broke WinXP.
>
> Do you have further insight Michael?

Nope, I just bisected and then reverted and tested that this helps.

>  Blindly reverting something that  
> appears right because of a regression is likely just papering over a  
> bigger problem.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-07 13:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Revert "posix-aio-compat: avoid signal race when spawning a thread" Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-07 16:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " malc
2009-10-07 16:28   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-07 16:33     ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-10-07 20:44     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-07 20:54       ` malc
2009-10-07 20:55         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-07 21:01           ` malc
2009-10-08  1:47             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-08  2:48               ` malc
2009-10-08 15:15                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-08 16:39                   ` malc
2009-10-09 11:12                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-10-09 13:13                       ` malc
2009-10-08 21:24                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-10-08 21:50                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-08 21:51                     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-10-09 11:13                     ` Jamie Lokier

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