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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schrodt <martin@schrodt.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 15:15:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <556c60ab-8cd9-1f4c-e507-2d25fb580843@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180627111319.4mlws52yq5ldoxwe@sirius.home.kraxel.org>

On 27/06/2018 13:13, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> Given the code runs under big qemu lock anyway the atomics are not
>> needed, so we could drop just them.  I left them in nevertheless because
>>
>>   (a) we might want try run the code in a thread instead of using a timer, and
>>   (b) I was too lazy to rewrite the code to drop the atomics.
>>
>> I'd prefer to keep option (a) ...
> 
> Well, experimented with that a bit. 
> 
> As long as the core audio system runs using qemu timers too moving to a
> thread doesn't buy us much as any latency spikes in qemu will hit us no
> matter what.
> 
> So, that point is moot.  I'll go drop the atomics.

Try stat64.  It should work just fine as it's made exactly for this kind
of simple counter.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-27 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-25 13:12 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/6] Audio 20180625 patches Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-26 19:55   ` Max Reitz
2018-06-27  6:51     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-27  7:24       ` Thomas Huth
2018-06-27  7:57         ` [Qemu-devel] Drop support for 32bit hosts in qemu? (was: [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO) Markus Armbruster
2018-06-27  8:09           ` [Qemu-devel] Drop support for 32bit hosts in qemu? Thomas Huth
2018-06-27  8:56             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-27 11:08             ` Alex Bennée
2018-06-27 11:09               ` Thomas Huth
2018-06-27  8:15           ` [Qemu-devel] Drop support for 32bit hosts in qemu? (was: [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO) BALATON Zoltan
2018-06-27  8:52             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-27  9:09               ` Thomas Huth
2018-06-27 13:33                 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-06-27 15:41                   ` Laurent Vivier
2018-06-27 18:44                     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-06-27 19:55                       ` Laurent Vivier
2018-06-27 10:49               ` Peter Maydell
2018-06-27 11:09                 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-06-27 13:08                   ` Alex Bennée
2018-06-27 13:09                     ` Alex Bennée
2018-06-27 11:09           ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-27 13:03             ` Alex Bennée
2018-06-27 13:38               ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-06-27 13:02           ` [Qemu-devel] Drop support for 32bit hosts in qemu? Juan Quintela
2018-06-27 13:11             ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-06-27 11:13       ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-27 13:15         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-06-27 12:21       ` Eric Blake
2018-06-29  8:19   ` Peter Maydell
2018-06-29 15:11     ` Eric Blake
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/6] audio/hda: turn some dprintfs into trace points Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/6] audio/hda: tweak timer adjust logic Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 4/6] audio/hda: detect output buffer overruns Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/6] audio/hda: enable new timer code by default Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 13:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 6/6] audio: Convert use of atoi to qemu_strtoi Gerd Hoffmann
2018-06-25 15:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/6] Audio 20180625 patches Peter Maydell

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