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From: Frederic Konrad <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] global_mutex and multithread.
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Hi everybody,

In case of multithread TCG what is the best way to handle qemu_global_mutex?
We though to have one mutex per vcpu and then synchronize vcpu threads when
they exit (eg: in tcg_exec_all).

Is that making sense?

Thanks,
Fred