From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:36:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECFEE3F.2000701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ECFC8BF.6060303@adacore.com>
On 11/25/2011 05:56 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>> >> Is it possible to use both? Keep the select scheme for iohandlers and
>>> >> slirp, but use g_main_context_iteration() for Glib stuff.
>> >
>> > Perhaps with two threads, but I think it's more complicated than
>> > merging the handle/fd sets and doing a single poll.
> Why two threads?
Because you have two disjoint sets of file descriptors (iohandler+slirp
and glib), both of which have to be waited on for a possibly infinite
file. You cannot do that at the same time without two threads (unless
you alternatively poll one and the other).
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 19:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-22 13:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add glib support to main loop Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: switch qemu_set_fd_handler to g_io_add_watch Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-08-22 13:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-22 13:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-06 14:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-06 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 7:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-07 8:08 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-09-07 12:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 14:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-09-07 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 15:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-24 17:11 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-24 17:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 10:24 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 10:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 14:46 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 14:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 15:33 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 15:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-11-25 16:56 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-25 19:36 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-11-28 9:13 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-09-04 14:03 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-04 14:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-04 15:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-09-07 12:54 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-05 9:46 ` Avi Kivity
2011-09-01 18:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Add glib support to main loop Anthony Liguori
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