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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tls.h: Enable TLS on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:58:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C977C4.5010603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-oOr_twUKhOg3j21dmpOkNpMZ-4KYmnxH=W6Qfi1X0vw@mail.gmail.com>

Il 25/06/2013 12:56, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 24 June 2013 22:15, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I and Stefan Hajnoczi have almost the same idea implemented in QEMU
>> (except that get_foo() returns a pointer to the variable).  But
>> pthread_get/setspecific would be too slow for cpu_single_env, so we're
>> just switching to __thread for cpu_single_env (for Linux in our patches,
>> but you can add FreeBSD too once it's needed).
> 
> By the way, what's the plan for Windows? Does that support
> __thread too, or will there still need to be some windows
> specific magic?

__thread is supported but slow, so there is a small amount of
Windows-specific magic (but it won't affect the users of tls.h).

Paolo



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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] tls.h: Enable TLS on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:58:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C977C4.5010603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-oOr_twUKhOg3j21dmpOkNpMZ-4KYmnxH=W6Qfi1X0vw@mail.gmail.com>

Il 25/06/2013 12:56, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 24 June 2013 22:15, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> I and Stefan Hajnoczi have almost the same idea implemented in QEMU
>> (except that get_foo() returns a pointer to the variable).  But
>> pthread_get/setspecific would be too slow for cpu_single_env, so we're
>> just switching to __thread for cpu_single_env (for Linux in our patches,
>> but you can add FreeBSD too once it's needed).
> 
> By the way, what's the plan for Windows? Does that support
> __thread too, or will there still need to be some windows
> specific magic?

__thread is supported but slow, so there is a small amount of
Windows-specific magic (but it won't affect the users of tls.h).

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-25 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-24 19:21 [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] tls.h: Enable TLS on FreeBSD Ed Maste
2013-06-24 19:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ed Maste
2013-06-24 21:15 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-24 21:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-24 21:30   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-06-24 21:30     ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-25  6:18     ` [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-25  6:18       ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-25 10:56   ` [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-06-25 10:56     ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-25 10:58     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-25 10:58       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 10:34 ` [Qemu-trivial] " Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 10:34   ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael Tokarev
2013-06-28 12:54   ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Ed Maste
2013-06-28 12:54     ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Ed Maste
2013-06-28 13:03     ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 13:03       ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 13:05       ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 13:05         ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 14:08         ` [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] " Ed Maste
2013-06-28 14:08           ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Ed Maste
2013-06-28 14:47         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 14:47           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 14:55           ` Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 14:55             ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-06-28 15:11             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 15:11               ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 15:35               ` Ed Maste
2013-06-28 15:35                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ed Maste
2013-06-28 15:37                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-28 15:37                   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-01  8:03                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-07-01  8:03                     ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi

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