From: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Ping Fan Liu <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 06/13] qemu-thread: add TLS wrappers
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:26:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130620072633.GA24927@localhost.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371203313-26490-7-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com>
On Fri, 06/14 11:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>
> Fast TLS is not available on some platforms, but it is always nice to
> use it. This wrapper implementation falls back to pthread_get/setspecific
> on POSIX systems that lack __thread, but uses the dynamic linker's TLS
> support on Linux and Windows.
>
> The user shall call alloc_foo() in every thread that needs to access the
> variable---exactly once and before any access. foo is the name of the
> variable as passed to DECLARE_TLS and DEFINE_TLS. Then, get_foo() will
> return the address of the variable. It is guaranteed to remain the same
> across the lifetime of a thread, so you can cache it.
Would tls_alloc_foo() and tls_get_foo() be easier to read and less
possible for name conflict?
Fam
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-20 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-14 9:48 [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/13] dataplane: use block layer Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 01/13] block: fix bdrv_flush() ordering in bdrv_close() Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 02/13] dataplane: sync virtio.c and vring.c virtqueue state Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 03/13] block: add BlockDevOps->drain_threads_cb() Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 04/13] virtio-blk: implement BlockDevOps->drain_threads_cb() Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 14:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 05/13] exec: do not use qemu/tls.h Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 06/13] qemu-thread: add TLS wrappers Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-20 7:26 ` Fam Zheng [this message]
2013-06-20 8:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-20 12:54 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 07/13] block: add thread_aio_context TLS variable Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 08/13] block: drop bdrv_get_aio_context() Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 14:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-17 14:57 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-17 15:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-18 9:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 09/13] main-loop: use thread-local AioContext Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/13] block: disable I/O throttling outside main loop Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 11/13] dataplane: use block layer for I/O Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 12/13] dataplane: drop ioq Linux AIO request queue Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-06-14 9:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC 13/13] block: drop raw_get_aio_fd() Stefan Hajnoczi
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