Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] monitor: move need_resume flag into monitor struct

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:51:33AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Xu <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It was put into the request object to show whether we'll need to resume
> > the monitor after dispatching the command.  Now we move that into the
> > monitor struct so that it might be even used in other places in the
> > future, e.g., out-of-band message flow controls.
> >
> > One thing to mention is that there is no lock needed before when
> > accessing the flag since the request object will always be owned by a
> > single thread.  After we move it into monitor struct we need to protect
> > that flag since it might be accessed by multiple threads now.  Renaming
> > the qmp_queue_lock into qmp_lock to protect the flag as well.
> >
> > No functional change.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> 
> Marc-André's "[PATCH v3 04/38] monitor: no need to save need_resume" and
> "[PATCH v3 05/38] monitor: further simplify previous patch" also mess
> with need_resume.  Marc-André, could you have a look at this patch and
> the next one?

Sorry I should have looked at those before hand.  I think I must be
waiting for another post to split the patches into two (after
Marc-Andre poked me with that thread) but then I forgot about that.

So now I suspect we'd better keep that flag since in the next patch
the suspend operation can happen conditionally now.

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu