Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-coroutine: Add simple work queue support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 04:46:59PM +1000, Peter Crosthwaite wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> I have ccd you on a RFC containing the work that this patch uses. I have
> also changed the name of the function to co_queue_enter_next() as i think
> yield was not the appropriate name. The idea is the top level thread which
> is managing the work queue can transfer into coroutine context with the
> function, so this function is more of an "enter" function than a "yield"
> function. I cant see any technical reasons why it needs the coroutine_fn
> restriction, as this in not required by qemu_coroutine_enter, which is the
> backend of this function.

You are right, I was confused by the "yield" in the name :).  It doesn't
need to be coroutine_fn.

Stefan