Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 06/13] qemu-thread: add TLS wrappers

[Fam Zheng]

On Fri, 06/14 11:48, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> 
> Fast TLS is not available on some platforms, but it is always nice to
> use it.  This wrapper implementation falls back to pthread_get/setspecific
> on POSIX systems that lack __thread, but uses the dynamic linker's TLS
> support on Linux and Windows.
> 
> The user shall call alloc_foo() in every thread that needs to access the
> variable---exactly once and before any access.  foo is the name of the
> variable as passed to DECLARE_TLS and DEFINE_TLS.  Then, get_foo() will
> return the address of the variable.  It is guaranteed to remain the same
> across the lifetime of a thread, so you can cache it.

Would tls_alloc_foo() and tls_get_foo() be easier to read and less
possible for name conflict?

Fam