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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 11/11] block: Only poll block layer fds
 in bdrv_aio_poll
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kwolf@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org

On Fri, 09/11 10:15, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/09/2015 05:22, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > Another advantage for bdrv_aio_poll() is, in main loop we will not need
> > a separate AioContext in changes like:
> > 
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/514968/
> > 
> > Because nested aio_poll will automatically be limited to only process block
> > layer events. My idea is to eventually let main loop use aio_poll
> 
> That would be a step back.  Using GSource is useful because it lets you
> integrate libraries such as GTK+.

Can we move GTK to a separate GSource thread?

Fam