Re: [Qemu-devel] getting rid of coroutine-gthread?

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 15/01/2013 14:18, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>> > Brad and Peter,
>> > 
>> > as far as I know OpenBSD and Linux/ARM were the main users of
>> > coroutine-gthread.  Do you think we could dump it and rely on
>> > coroutine-sigaltstack only?  The differences in signal handling of the
>> > gthread implementation always worried me.
>> > 
>> > What versions of OpenBSD would we have to drop support for?  Is that
>> > acceptable to you?
> Changing the defaults for these platforms may be a good idea, but I
> actually like the option of having coroutine-gthread because it's much
> friendlier to debug - gdb supports threads, but not coroutines.
> 
> Is coroutine-gthread blocking anything or is it just that you're not
> entirely confident in its correctness?

I'm not entirely confident in its correctness, and I'd be afraid of
breaking things when converting dataplane to AIOContext.

Paolo