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* whats the advantage of enable-io-thread
@ 2009-09-18  5:23 Dietmar Maurer
  2009-09-18 16:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dietmar Maurer @ 2009-09-18  5:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm@vger.kernel.org

Hi all,

what is the advantage of the --enable-io-thread options. It is disabled by default - why?

- Dietmar


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* Re: whats the advantage of enable-io-thread
  2009-09-18  5:23 whats the advantage of enable-io-thread Dietmar Maurer
@ 2009-09-18 16:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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From: Marcelo Tosatti @ 2009-09-18 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dietmar Maurer; +Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 07:23:46AM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> what is the advantage of the --enable-io-thread options. It is disabled by default - why?
> 
> - Dietmar

qemu-kvm uses its own io thread by default. This option only makes sense
in qemu upstream (at the moment). Its disabled by default there because
it slows down TCG emulation.


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