From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz2Mk-0000bt-Cs for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:15:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz2MX-0002M9-9b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:15:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56859) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sz2MX-0002KF-1z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:15:33 -0400 Message-ID: <50222E2D.7050300@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:15:25 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1344407156-25562-1-git-send-email-qemulist@gmail.com> <1344407156-25562-4-git-send-email-qemulist@gmail.com> <50222BC7.4060809@redhat.com> <50222C3B.1010302@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <50222C3B.1010302@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/15] qom: introduce reclaimer to release obj List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka , Marcelo Tosatti , Liu Ping Fan , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , Anthony Liguori , Stefan Hajnoczi , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= On 08/08/2012 12:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 08/08/2012 11:05, Avi Kivity ha scritto: >>> > From: Liu Ping Fan >>> > >>> > Collect unused object and release them at caller demand. >>> > >> Please explain the motivation for this patch. > > It's poor man RCU, I think? I thought that it was to defer destructors (finalizers) to a more suitable context. But why is the unref context unsuitable? I don't see how it relates to RCU, where is the C and the U? Anyway the list eagerly awaits the explanation. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function