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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "David Airlie" <airlied@redhat.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ...
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 13:34:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <569D4C69.5070304@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453110880.23289.7.camel@redhat.com>

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On 01/18/2016 02:54 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi folks,
> 
> I'm starting to investigate if and how we can move the user interface
> code into its own thread instead of running it in the iothread and
> therefore avoid blocking the guest in case some UI actions take a little
> longer.

That, and so the UI can use localization without corrupting other
threads that MUST use the C locale (QMP parsing/output of floating point
is particularly important to get right with '.' instead of ',' for a
decimal separator).

> 
> Suggestions how to tackle that?

Sadly, I don't have good suggestions here, as I've never done much in
the way of UI coding.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-18  9:54 [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-18 20:34 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2016-01-19 13:01   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-19 13:38     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-01-19 14:14       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-20 14:33         ` Kevin Wolf
2016-01-19 15:19     ` Markus Armbruster
2016-01-19 15:28     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-01-20  5:05       ` Eric Blake
2016-01-20  8:45         ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-19 12:51 ` Kevin Wolf
2016-01-21  9:58   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-01-21 10:39     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-21 10:52       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-21 10:40     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-01-19 15:37 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2016-01-20  7:13   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-21  8:44 ` Dave Airlie
2016-01-21  9:05   ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-21  9:52     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-21 10:16       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-22  1:38     ` Dave Airlie
2016-01-22  6:59       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-01-22  7:14         ` Dave Airlie
2016-01-21  9:00 ` Fam Zheng
2016-01-21  9:45   ` Gerd Hoffmann

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