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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Kick io-thread on qemu_chr_accept_input
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F633D93.4050701@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F633D37.60806@us.ibm.com>

On 2012-03-16 14:16, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 07:25 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Once a chr frontend is able to receive input again, we need to inform
>> the io-thread about this fact. Otherwise, main_loop_wait may continue to
>> select without the related backend file descriptor in its set. This can
>> cause high input latencies if only low-rate events arrive otherwise.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka<jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> 
> I'm not nacking this patch, but please note that this is a band-aid as not all 
> char devices actually use qemu_chr_accept_input().

Then they have to be fixed. :)

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-16 13:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-16 12:25 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Kick io-thread on qemu_chr_accept_input Jan Kiszka
2012-03-16 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-16 13:18   ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-03-29 12:19     ` Jan Kiszka

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