Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2012-04-05 13:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/04/2012 12:55, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>> BTW you _could_ have a QemuEvent primitive based on Windows manual-reset
>>> events. It can be used in some cases as a replacement for condvars,
>>> especially when you have multiple producers and a single consumer (MPSC
>>> queue is perhaps the easiest lock-free data structure).  It can be made
>>> very lightweight on Linux using futexes, and would also support timed
>>> wait easily on Windows.  The API would be more or less like this:
>>>
>>>   void qemu_event_init(QemuEvent *event, bool set);
>>>   void qemu_event_wait(QemuEvent *event);
>>>   void qemu_event_timedwait(QemuEvent *event, int ms);
>>>   void qemu_event_set(QemuEvent *event);
>>>   void qemu_event_reset(QemuEvent *event);
>>
>> Yes, qemu_event_wait/timedwait could be added on top later on when we
>> have a use case in sight. But mapping futexes wouldn't be compatible
>> with eventfd/pipe based signaling.
> 
> Note that the thing above would be separate from EventNotifier, which is
> why I only mentioned as "by the way".
> 
> EventNotifier and anything using eventfd/pipes would _not_ be a
> "QEMU-styled thread synchronization mechanism" simply because you can
> use it with qemu_aio_set_fd_handler.
> 
> That's why I think it should be separate from qemu-threads and stay
> outside the QEMU namespace.

Sorry, but that makes no sense to me. It is an abstraction we defined
for QEMU usage in a way that fits precisely our (current) needs. That's
what we did with tons of other abstractions before, so it fits very well
here IMHO.

Jan

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