[Qemu-devel] [RFC 10/13] block: disable I/O throttling outside main loop

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

Timers only work in the main loop.  This means threads running their own
AioContext cannot use I/O throttling for now.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
---
 block.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index d986fc8..2d7a0f8 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -169,6 +169,11 @@ static void bdrv_io_limits_intercept(BlockDriverState *bs,
 {
     int64_t wait_time = -1;
 
+    /* Timers currently only work in the main loop */
+    if (*get_thread_aio_context() != qemu_get_aio_context()) {
+        return;
+    }
+
     if (!qemu_co_queue_empty(&bs->throttled_reqs)) {
         qemu_co_queue_wait(&bs->throttled_reqs);
     }
-- 
1.8.1.4