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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] dataplane: IOThreads and writing dataplane-capabl
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] dataplane: IOThreads and writing dataplane-capable code |
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Thu, 8 May 2014 15:08:46 +0200 |
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Am 08.05.2014 um 12:16 hat Stefan Hajnoczi geschrieben:
> Side note: The main loop and IOThread are both event loops but their code is
> not shared completely. Sometimes it is useful to remember that although they
> are conceptually similar they are currently not interchangeable.
We need to be careful with the terminology. The choice made here, that
the main loop thread is not an IOThread, is somewhat unfortunate,
because traditionally, the "I/O thread" has been what the main loop
thread is called (in contrast to vcpu threads).
Kevin