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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] spawning and killing threads in qemu
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On 01/26/2012 07:31 PM, Xin Tong wrote:
> When i attach gdb to qemu running in system mode, i often get things like
>
> [Thread 0x7ffed2013700 (LWP 29499) exited]
> [New Thread 0x7ffed2013700 (LWP 29500)]
>
> what spawns these threads and what do these threads do ?

The block layer's thread pool.

Paolo