Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] port network layer onto glib

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 14/03/2013 11:04, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 13 March 2013 12:34, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
>> AioContext is necessary for the block layer because the block layer
>> still has synchronous I/O.  I think we should aim to replace all sync
>> I/O in the long term with coroutine based I/O.
> 
> I think coroutines are dreadful and we should really not be moving
> towards greater use of them. They're just really really not portable
> and they don't fit with the C language, and they're a constant source
> of problems.(For instance I have a bug I need to look into where we
> seem to hang using the gthread coroutine backend but not sigaltstack.)

The gthread coroutine backend is really more for debugging than anything
else.  It works for qemu-io/img, but not for QEMU.  Good that you
actually found proof. :)

Paolo

> Use threads, or a genuinely asynchronous API, or a select/poll loop
> with callbacks, but not more coroutines please.
> 
> -- PMM
>