From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] posix-aio-compat: fix latency issues
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:02:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E53B2D8.7080608@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E53A4E4.1090807@siemens.com>
On 08/23/2011 08:02 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-08-23 14:40, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> You should be able to just use an eventfd or pipe.
>>
>> Better yet, we should look at using GThreadPool to replace posix-aio-compat.
>
> When interacting with the thread pool is part of some time-critical path
> (easily possible with a real-time Linux guest), general-purpose
> implementations like what glib offers are typically out of the game.
> They do not provide sufficient customizability, specifically control
> over their internal synchronization and allocation policies. That
> applies to the other rather primitive glib threading and locking
> services as well.
We can certainly enhance glib. glib is a cross platform library. I
don't see a compelling reason to invent a new cross platform library
just for QEMU especially if the justification is future features, not
current features.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Jan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-23 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-14 4:04 [PATCH v2] posix-aio-compat: fix latency issues Avi Kivity
2011-08-14 4:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-08-22 17:22 ` Kevin Wolf
2011-08-22 17:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2011-08-22 17:29 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-22 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-08-23 11:01 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-23 11:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-23 12:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-23 12:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-23 13:02 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-23 13:02 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-23 14:02 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-08-23 14:10 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-08-28 8:09 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-28 8:09 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
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