Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v6 10/27] monitor: allow to use IO thread for parsing

[Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 05:37:39PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/19/2017 02:45 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
> 
> Grammar in the subject:
> 
> "allow to $VERB" is not idiomatic English; correct is either "allow
> ${VERB}ing" or "allow $SUBJECT to $VERB".  Concretely, s/to use/using/
> 
> > For each Monitor, add one field "use_io_thr" to show whether it will be
> > using the dedicated monitor IO thread to handle input/output.  When set,
> > monitor IO parsing work will be offloaded to dedicated monitor IO
> 
> s/to/to the/
> 
> > thread, rather than the original main loop thread.
> > 
> > This only works for QMP.  HMP will always be run on main loop thread.
> 
> s/on/on the/
> 
> > 
> > Currently we're still keeping use_io_thr to off always.  Will turn it on
> 
> s/to off/off/
> 
> > later at some point.
> > 
> > One thing to mention is that we cannot set use_io_thr for every QMP
> > monitors.  The problem is that MUXed typed chardevs may not work well
> 
> s/monitors/monitor/
> 
> > with it now. When MUX is used, frontend of chardev can be the monitor
> > plus something else.  The only thing we know would be safe to be run
> > outside main thread so far is the monitor frontend. All the rest of the
> > frontends should still be run in main thread only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  monitor.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> >  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > 
> I have nothing to add on the code review, but it looks like Stefan had
> valid comments that need addressing.

Yes, will address it with all the grammar fixes above.  Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu