Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] thread-win32: fix GetThreadContext() permanently fails

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 23/06/2015 13:18, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > For 2.5, however, I wonder if SuspendThread/ResumeThread is needed at
> > all now that cpu_exit doesn't have to undo block chaining anymore.  Even
> > on POSIX platforms the signal might not be necessary anymore.
> 
> If you don't have that signal / SuspendThread/ResumtThread requirement,

That was independent of QEMU reinventing the wheel for mutexes/condvars.

> might that enable QEMU to just depend on the winpthreads library that
> is provided by Mingw project, and not bother reinventing the wheel for
> thread library portabilty ?

We can and should just reuse glib these days as much as we can (probably
not entirely because glib doesn't have detached threads).  At least a
few years ago, winpthreads was much slower than native Win32, which is
why everyone reinvents the wheel.

I was planning to do it in 2.5.

Paolo