From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41709) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFSic-00057e-IQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:06:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFSiZ-00069D-NP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:05:58 -0400 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:19290) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFSiZ-00068h-Cy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:05:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4F7C715E.506@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:05:50 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F7C663E.20200@redhat.com> <4F7C67BA.4000007@siemens.com> <4F7C68E2.508@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F7C68E2.508@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Kevin Wolf , Anthony Liguori , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" 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. Yep, this screams for something like QemuEvent which pleases all users of current qemu_eventfd and EventNotifier - and fit into the existing threading/synchronization abstraction layout. I retract patches 3&4, will be done on top of the event rework. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux