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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Qemu-development List <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
	Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] qemu: Add qemu-wrappers for pthread_attr_t
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:07:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C08FAA3.5020502@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C07A093.8020907@redhat.com>

On 06/03/2010 07:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 10:56 AM, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
>> Add qemu wrappers for pthread_attr_t handling.
>
> The point of these wrappers AFAIU is not only to add error_exit, but 
> also to be portable to Windows in the future.  Is it necessary to 
> create the threads as detached?  If you set queue->min_threads to zero 
> all threads should exit as soon as they finish their work (which is 
> better than exiting immediately).

This is historical because the code was largely inspired by glibc's 
implementation of posix-aio.  It doesn't need to be detached and since 
Corentin wants to be able to join a worker, it makes sense to just avoid 
detaching and pay the overhead of making the threads joinable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo
>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-04 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-03  8:56 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 0/3] qemu: Make AIO threading framework generic Gautham R Shenoy
2010-06-03  8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 1/3] qemu: Add qemu-wrappers for pthread_attr_t Gautham R Shenoy
2010-06-03 12:31   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-04 13:07     ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2010-06-04 13:19       ` Corentin Chary
2010-06-04 13:27         ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-10 11:12         ` Gautham R Shenoy
2010-06-03  8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 2/3] qemu: Generic asynchronous threading framework to offload tasks Gautham R Shenoy
2010-06-03 11:41   ` [Qemu-devel] " Corentin Chary
2010-06-03 12:37     ` Paolo Bonzini
2010-06-04 13:16   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-06-05  7:03     ` Corentin Chary
2010-06-10 11:37     ` Gautham R Shenoy
2010-06-03  8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V3 3/3] qemu: Convert AIO code to use the generic threading infrastructure Gautham R Shenoy

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