Re: [Qemu-devel] [4341] qemu: generate signals on tap I/O

[Anthony Liguori]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If you explicitly call host_alarm_handler in tap_send(), do you see 
> the same improvement?  Perhaps your host timer is just very slow?

Oh, it's probably that the signal is causing TCG to be interrupted and 
IO to be processed immediately.  Moving the select() loop into a 
separate thread that sets an atomic whenever it's time to break out of 
the TCG loop would be a more general solution.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
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> Anthony Liguori
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> > > That's why I use that patch in my local tree.
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