Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH V3 1/3] qemu: Add qemu-wrappers for pthread_attr_t

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/03/2010 07:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 10:56 AM, Gautham R Shenoy wrote:
> > Add qemu wrappers for pthread_attr_t handling.
>
> The point of these wrappers AFAIU is not only to add error_exit, but 
> also to be portable to Windows in the future.  Is it necessary to 
> create the threads as detached?  If you set queue->min_threads to zero 
> all threads should exit as soon as they finish their work (which is 
> better than exiting immediately).

This is historical because the code was largely inspired by glibc's 
implementation of posix-aio.  It doesn't need to be detached and since 
Corentin wants to be able to join a worker, it makes sense to just avoid 
detaching and pay the overhead of making the threads joinable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo