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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-kvm: response to SIGUSR1 to start/stop
 a VCPU (v2)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:08:35 +0100
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On 11/24/2010 02:15 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Is it signal safe?

Yes, at heart it is just a somewhat more expensive access to 
pthread_self()->some_array[key].

> BTW, this is all only theoretical.  This is in the KVM io thread code
> which is already highly unportable.

True, and newer versions of GCC emulate __thread even on Windows.

Paolo