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From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to understand the coroutine context?
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To: Le Tan <tamlokveer@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 07:56:16AM +0800, Le Tan wrote:
> Hi, I am diving into the source code of qemu. I see the word
> "coroutine" appears in so many places. I can't figure out what it
> means. So, please, can anyone help me, telling me the mechanism or
> semantic of "coroutine"? Thanks!

This might be of help --
http://blog.vmsplice.net/2014/01/coroutines-in-qemu-basics.html


-- 
/kashyap