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Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:59:09 +0530
From: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [REFACTORED CODE] [PATCH 0/3] Threadlets: A
	generic	task offloading framework.
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* Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2010-11-08 16:16:50]:

> Hi,
> 
> This is the v9 of the refactored patch-series to have a generic
> asynchronous task offloading framework (called threadlets)
> within qemu.
> 
> 

Testing carried out:

I have run KVM autotest suite with this patch. This test suite
ran successfully for the following tests:
connecthon, dbench, fstress, disktest, ebizzy, cpu_hotplug,
hackbench and sleeptest.

-arun
> Changes from earlier iteration:
> 
> * Code is refactored such that it reflects the following:
>         patch1: In-place code changes in paio subsystem to use the
>                 generic threadlets infrastructure.
>         patch2: Move the threadlets infrastructure to a new file -
>                 qemu-threadlets.c
>         patch3: Add helper functions to enable virtio-9p make
>                 use of the threadlets
> 
> * Remove the infinite while loop in paio_cancel and use mutex
>   to wait for request to complete.
> 
> * Address the issue of dead code due to
>   MAX_GLOBAL_THREADS = MIN_GLOBAL_THREADS