Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [ide] Check that asynchronous (DMA) submission succeeds

[Jamie Lokier]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> I'll have to look more closely, but most of the code goes to great 
> lengths to use bottom halves to avoid the possibility of infinite 
> recursion.  The concern with recursion is not CPU consumption, it's that 
> you'll eventually overrun the stack and potentially crash the QEMU process.

(Completely unrelated: "qemu -net nic -net user -net user" will
overrun the stack and crash the QEMU process as soon as the guest
makes an external TCP connection.)

-- Jamie