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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:36:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECFEE3F.2000701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECFC8BF.6060303@adacore.com>

On 11/25/2011 05:56 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>> >>  Is it possible to use both? Keep the select scheme for iohandlers and
>>> >>  slirp, but use g_main_context_iteration() for Glib stuff.
>> >
>> >  Perhaps with two threads, but I think it's more complicated than
>> >  merging the handle/fd sets and doing a single poll.
> Why two threads?

Because you have two disjoint sets of file descriptors (iohandler+slirp 
and glib), both of which have to be waited on for a possibly infinite 
file.  You cannot do that at the same time without two threads (unless 
you alternatively poll one and the other).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-25 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-22 13:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add glib support to main loop Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:40   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-22 13:45     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:47       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-06 14:31         ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-06 15:59           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07  7:03             ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-07  8:08               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 12:42               ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 14:40                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-07 14:53                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 15:26                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-24 17:11         ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-24 17:30           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 10:24             ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 10:46               ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 14:46                 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 14:49                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 15:33                     ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 15:48                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 16:56                         ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 19:36                           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-28  9:13                             ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-09-04 14:03   ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-04 14:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-04 15:01     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 12:54       ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-05  9:46     ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-01 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add glib support to main loop Anthony Liguori

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