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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Kick io-thread on qemu_chr_accept_input


From: Jan Kiszka
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Kick io-thread on qemu_chr_accept_input
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:18:11 +0100
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On 2012-03-16 14:16, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 03/16/2012 07:25 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Once a chr frontend is able to receive input again, we need to inform
>> the io-thread about this fact. Otherwise, main_loop_wait may continue to
>> select without the related backend file descriptor in its set. This can
>> cause high input latencies if only low-rate events arrive otherwise.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka<address@hidden>
> 
> I'm not nacking this patch, but please note that this is a band-aid as not 
> all 
> char devices actually use qemu_chr_accept_input().

Then they have to be fixed. :)

Jan

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