Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] iothread improvements for Mac OS X

[Alexandre Raymond]

Hi Paolo,

> Ping? 1/2 is probably somehow working around the sigmask problem fixed by
> Alexandre (Mac people, can you check?), but it is way more readable than the
> fair_mutex IMNSHO.  I would be surprised if 2/2 also turned out to be a
> workaround, but even if this were the case, it makes CPU usage lower.

Those patches (I tested them together) do indeed appear to work around
the freezes I was encountering with io-thread enabled on OS X.

I get dma timeout errors when trying to boot Linux, but they don't
seem related to this patch as I got the same errors with the patches I
submitted a couple of weeks ago.

Alexandre

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Tested-by: Alexandre Raymond <address@hidden>