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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>, Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com>, Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 06:32:03PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:

[...]

> I think this OOB solution should work for us, though I'm still trying
> to digest this whole thing.  Thanks Markus for this design, much
> appreciated.  Meanwhile, sorry to have troubled you on this. I really
> didn't mean to!
> 
> Considering that we may still have some commands (like what Fam has
> mentioned in block layer) that may need to be run only in main thread,
> I think a first attempt may need to have one IO/parser thread (parses
> monitor input stream, and also responsible to run out-of-band
> commands), plus no worker thread, then I'll feed the dispatching work
> back to main thread again to make sure that assumption still keeps.
> 
> Dan, do you think this will work from libvirt POV?  I won't try to
> prototype anything if without your confirmation as well.
> 
> Thanks!

CC Daniel.

-- 
Peter Xu