From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] dataplane: IOThreads and writing dataplane-capable code
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 15:08:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508130846.GC4034@noname.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140508101655.GA7534@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com>
Am 08.05.2014 um 12:16 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> Side note: The main loop and IOThread are both event loops but their code is
> not shared completely. Sometimes it is useful to remember that although they
> are conceptually similar they are currently not interchangeable.
We need to be careful with the terminology. The choice made here, that
the main loop thread is not an IOThread, is somewhat unfortunate,
because traditionally, the "I/O thread" has been what the main loop
thread is called (in contrast to vcpu threads).
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-08 10:16 [Qemu-devel] [RFC] dataplane: IOThreads and writing dataplane-capable code Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-05-08 11:33 ` Fam Zheng
2014-05-08 11:56 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-05-08 12:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-08 13:08 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2014-05-08 13:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-05-08 13:18 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-05-08 13:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-08 14:42 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-05-08 18:58 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-09 8:20 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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