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Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 15:10:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] dataplane: IOThreads and writing
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Il 08/05/2014 15:08, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
> Am 08.05.2014 um 12:16 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
>> Side note: The main loop and IOThread are both event loops but their code is
>> not shared completely.  Sometimes it is useful to remember that although they
>> are conceptually similar they are currently not interchangeable.
>
> We need to be careful with the terminology. The choice made here, that
> the main loop thread is not an IOThread, is somewhat unfortunate,
> because traditionally, the "I/O thread" has been what the main loop
> thread is called (in contrast to vcpu threads).

Note that the main loop thread could definitely be an IOThread, since it 
has an AioContext and the IOThread is just a QOM veneer for AioContext. 
  It's just not done yet.

Paolo