Re: [patch 1/2] QEMU: use SIGARLM for alarm timers, enable SIGIO on qemu_set_fd_handler2()

Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-11T19:44:57Z

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 01:59:35PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> With the IO thread, shouldn't we be striving to perform the select()s
> within the IO thread itself to completely avoid the need to use SIGIO at
> all?

Fully agree. Problem with it are the fundamental changes in qemu that
are required (and the difficulty merging those in qemu).

This is an immediate and easy fix to reduce CPU consumption of
-nographic.