Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Spread the use of QEMU threading & locking API

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-04-04 17:29, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 04/04/2012 17:24, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>>> For patches 3 and 4, I'd rather use an EventNotifier...
>> ...which still lacks support for non-eventfd systems. Hmm, I guess it's
>> time to consolidate both.
> 
> Perhaps you can take the relevant patches out of the thread-blocks
> branch at git://github.com/pbonzini/qemu.git?  The iothread eventfd
> could also use an EventNotifier.

Current EventNotifier code applies EFD_SEMAPHORE, which is not what we
want for Posix AIO (otherwise we could just stick with the pipe). I
cannot match the reasoning for EFD_SEM in event_notifier.c with the man
page, need to dig deeper.

Jan

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