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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] coroutine: dataplane support
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Peter Maydell |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] coroutine: dataplane support |
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Fri, 17 May 2013 16:08:36 +0100 |
On 17 May 2013 14:51, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> There is ongoing work to enable multiple event loop threads. This will allow
> QEMU itself to take advantage of SMP and reduce Big QEMU Lock (BQL)
> contention.
> This series is one step in that effort.
>
> These patches make coroutines safe in a multi-event loop/multi-threaded world.
> I have successfully tested them running qcow2 in a dataplane thread (further
> patches are required which I'll be sending soon).
Did you test the sigaltstack backend as well as ucontext? I know
in theory they should be the same but still :-)
thanks
-- PMM