Re: [Qemu-devel] How to understand the coroutine context?

[Markus Armbruster]

Juan Quintela <address@hidden> writes:

> Le Tan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi, I am diving into the source code of qemu. I see the word
>> "coroutine" appears in so many places. I can't figure out what it
>> means. So, please, can anyone help me, telling me the mechanism or
>> semantic of "coroutine"? Thanks!
>
> google, 1st hit, wikipedia:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroutine
>
> A bit short resume:
>
> Getting "user"-threads when you don't have threads.

More like getting multiple flows of control even though you don't want
threads.