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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to understand the coroutine context?
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To: Le Tan <tamlokveer@gmail.com>
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Le Tan <tamlokveer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am diving into the source code of qemu. I see the word
> "coroutine" appears in so many places. I can't figure out what it
> means. So, please, can anyone help me, telling me the mechanism or
> semantic of "coroutine"? Thanks!

google, 1st hit, wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine

A bit short resume:

Getting "user"-threads when you don't have threads.

Later, Juan.