From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Multiple instances of Qemu on Windows multicore
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 20:52:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB19F6B.8020907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_rJdNtOv5UJxks560W4pF4Sqk=wR6Zr90Y0Tyyy6W-XA@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/02/2011 07:01 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 2 November 2011 17:45, Paolo Bonzini<pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> The rest is always done in the iothread. The iothread will then
>> suspend/resume the VCPU thread around the unchaining, so what matters is (in
>> Unix parlance) signal-safety of the unchaining, not thread-safety.
>
> The unchaining is neither signal-safe nor thread-safe...
Yeah, but there's nothing Windows-specific in that.
(Also, the unchaining is safer, or even completely safe in system mode
than it is with pthreads).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-02 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-02 15:38 [Qemu-devel] Multiple instances of Qemu on Windows multicore Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-02 16:25 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-02 17:10 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-02 17:16 ` malc
2011-11-02 17:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-02 17:55 ` malc
2011-11-02 18:01 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-02 19:52 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-02 19:57 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-03 9:56 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-03 9:54 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-03 10:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-03 10:29 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-03 11:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-04 9:27 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-04 9:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
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