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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>,
	MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] timer: make qemu_clock_enable sync between disable and timer's cb
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:31:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5211E5F0.3040304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJnKYQmVmpa635NfF_7kvyQsDUctZJxpQN_9O1sfFKs3evx=xg@mail.gmail.com>

Il 19/08/2013 09:14, liu ping fan ha scritto:
>> > But does timerlists need a lock, or does the BQL suffice?  If it
>> > doesn't, there is no need for events_list_lock either.  Is
>> > qemu_clock_enable called outside the BQL?
>> >
> Currently, no such guarantee based on BQL. But if we enforce that an
> backend thread holds BQL before it cleans up resources, we can resort
> to BQL. (so document this, and save the events_list_lock?)

Yes, please.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-13  5:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/4] timers thread-safe stuff Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] seqlock: introduce read-write seqlock Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  8:26   ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13  8:39     ` liu ping fan
2013-08-13  9:09       ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13 14:52         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-13 14:53           ` Jan Kiszka
2013-08-13 15:28             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] timer: protect timers_state's clock with seqlock Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/4] qemu-thread: add QemuEvent Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13  5:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] timer: make qemu_clock_enable sync between disable and timer's cb Liu Ping Fan
2013-08-13 14:53   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-14  0:34     ` liu ping fan
2013-08-18 14:54       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-19  7:14         ` liu ping fan
2013-08-19  9:31           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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