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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 23:28:47 +0100
From: Thomas Huth <thuth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to understand the coroutine context?
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Le Tan <tamlokveer@gmail.com>, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>

On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:34:56 +0530
Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com> wrote:

> 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

That's a very nice introduction ... Stefan, maybe you could also add
that to the docs directory of the QEMU repository? There does not seem
to be a description of the QEMU coroutines there yet...

 Regards,
  Thomas