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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] main: force enabling of I/O thread
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alexandre Raymond <cerbere@gmail.com>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 08/30/2011 01:45 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 30.08.2011 um 00:42 schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>
>> What about making --enable-io-thread default as an intermediate step?
>> That would leave --disable-io-thread as temporary workaround until all
>> issues are fixed. The latter could generate a big fat warning that this
>> mode will be removed before 1.0.
>
> Yes please, that proposal sounds much better.
>
> If http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.0 is still up-to-date, we have about
> six weeks to make I/O thread work everywhere.

I'm not a big fan of just flipping the configure flag.  There is other 
work being held up by disable-io-thread like the timer conversion.

If there aren't known issues, then I want to remove the non-I/O thread 
code.  git history is still there for anyone that wants to test w/o it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Andreas