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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch v4 08/16] QemuThread: make QemuThread as
 tls to store extra info
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>

Il 22/10/2012 19:13, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
>> > Can't we enhance qemu-tls.h to work via pthread_setspecific in case
>> > __thread is not working and use that abstraction (DECLARE/DEFINE_TLS)
>> > directly?
> Agreed. (There were prototype patches floating around for Win32
> at least). The only reason qemu-tls.h has the dummy not-actually-tls
> code for non-linux is that IIRC we wanted to get the linux bits
> in quickly before a release and we never got round to going back
> and doing it properly for the other targets.

Which will be "never" for OpenBSD.  It just doesn't have enough support.

Thread-wise OpenBSD is 100% crap, and we should stop supporting it IMHO
until they finish their "new" thread library that's been in the works
for 10 years or so.  FreeBSD is totally ok.

Paolo