Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v6 22/27] qmp: isolate responses into io thread

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 08:57:02PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Tue, 12/19 16:45, Peter Xu wrote:
> > For those monitors who has enabled IO thread, we'll offload the
> 
> s/has/have/
> 
> > responding procedure into IO thread.  The main reason is that chardev is
> > not thread safe, and we need to do all the read/write IOs in the same
> > thread.  For use_io_thr=true monitors, that thread is the IO thread.
> > 
> > We do this isolation in similar pattern as what we have done to the
> > request queue: we first create one response queue for each monitor, then
> > instead of reply directly in main thread, we queue the responses and
> 
> s/reply/replying/
> 
> s/main thread/the main thread/

Fixed all.

> 
> > kick the IO thread to do the rest of the job for us.
> > 
> > A funny thing after doing this is that, when the QMP clients send "quit"
> > to QEMU, it's possible that we close the IOThread even earlier than
> > replying to that "quit".  So another thing we need to do before cleaning
> > up the monitors is that we need to flush the response queue (we don't
> > need to do that for command queue; after all we are quitting) to make
> > sure replies for handled commands are always flushed back to clients.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>

Thanks!

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Peter Xu