Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] Add helper functions to enable virtio-9p make use of the threadlets

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Arun R Bharadwaj
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Gautham R Shenoy <address@hidden>
>
> infrastructure for offloading blocking tasks such as making posix calls on
> to the helper threads and handle the post_posix_operations() from the
> context of the iothread. This frees the vcpu thread to process any other guest
> operations while the processing of v9fs_io is in progress.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Sripathi Kodi <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/virtio-9p.c     |  164 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  posix-aio-compat.c |   30 +++-------
>  qemu-threadlets.c  |   21 +++++++
>  qemu-threadlets.h  |    1
>  vl.c               |    3 +
>  5 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

Is there code queued up which makes use of this in virtfs?  I ask
because at the moment this is deadcode.

If you are restructuring this patch series, perhaps move the signal
related changes into a commit - they are independent of virtfs.

Stefan