Re: [Qemu-devel] coroutine-ucontext broken for x86-32

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 05/09/2012 02:15 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I think it's becoming increasingly obvious that the setcontext/getcontext
> code path is not very well used and prone to nasty libc bugs. Trying
> to implement coroutines in C is just a really bad idea and I think
> we should be trying to reduce our use of them if we possibly can,
> presumably by switching to actually using threads where we really
> need the parallelism.
>

I happen to like coroutines, but if we switch to threads, we should
ensure that we eliminate the extra context switch if the layer below
(usually posix-aio-compat) also uses threads.  That leaves a theoretical
regression with qcow2-on-native-aio, but that's a fairly rare use case.

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