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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:52:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] port network layer onto glib
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Liu Ping Fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 13/03/2013 18:23, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> I think the nesting is also a bit strange.
>
> Nesting's gone since we added coroutines. :)

Okay, I owe AioContext a deeper look then.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>> I would like the dataplane virtio code to
>>> grow everything else that needs to be in all dataplane-style devices
>>> (for example, things such as setting up the guest<->host notifiers), and
>>> the hw/virtio.c API implemented on top of it (or dead altogether).
>>> Usage of AioContext is pretty much forced by the block layer.
>> 
>> I don't think that AioContext is the right answer because it makes it
>> too easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
>
> See above, if nesting is the problem it's gone.
>
> Paolo