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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:36:03 +0200
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 0/5] arm AioContext with its own
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To: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Liu Ping Fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:23:52AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> 
> 
> --On 29 July 2013 11:22:13 +0200 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >The potential for overlap with Alex Bligh's series is large.  Can you
> >base your patches on his v4?
> >
> >It seems the difference is that you make clock sources to be available
> >globally while Alex's series uses rt_clock (no synchronization
> >necessary).
> 
> I should say PingFan has probably paid more attention to thread safety
> than me, as my work was intended to be applied before AioContexts were
> used by multiple threads.

Exactly.  That's why I think these patches should be based on your
series - they add the thread safety on top.

Stefan