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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:38:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F7C6AF9.7080605@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7C68E2.508@redhat.com>

On 2012-04-04 17:29, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 04/04/2012 17:24, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>> For patches 3 and 4, I'd rather use an EventNotifier...
>> ...which still lacks support for non-eventfd systems. Hmm, I guess it's
>> time to consolidate both.
> 
> Perhaps you can take the relevant patches out of the thread-blocks
> branch at git://github.com/pbonzini/qemu.git?  The iothread eventfd
> could also use an EventNotifier.

Current EventNotifier code applies EFD_SEMAPHORE, which is not what we
want for Posix AIO (otherwise we could just stick with the pipe). I
cannot match the reasoning for EFD_SEM in event_notifier.c with the man
page, need to dig deeper.

Jan

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 15:08 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Introduce qemu_cond_timedwait for POSIX Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Switch POSIX compat AIO to QEMU abstractions Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/5] Use qemu_eventfd for POSIX AIO Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/5] Reorder POSIX compat AIO code Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Switch compatfd to QEMU thread Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-04 15:24   ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 15:29     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-04 15:38       ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2012-04-04 15:43         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 16:05       ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 16:39         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-04 16:55           ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-04 17:19             ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-05  7:51               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-05 10:55                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-05 11:07                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-05 11:18                     ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-05 11:29                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-05 12:04                         ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-05 12:48                           ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]                             ` <4F7D977A.1020905@siemens.com>
2012-04-05 13:40                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-04-05 14:01                                 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-04-05 14:11                                   ` Paolo Bonzini

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