Re: [Qemu-devel] testandset asm fix

[Fabrice Bellard]

Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
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> > OK. Anyway, the locking in QEMU is mostly boggus. If SMP is
> > implemented someday with host threads, then it will be the right
> > time to correct it !
>
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> Differences in strict/loose memory ordering between different
> processor types will be a bigger problem for SMP emulation, IMHO.
> What are your plans on that?

For x86 on x86 it won't be a problem if we use the same locking 
instructions. For the rest, using high level locks might suffice at the 
expense of efficiency. In the worst case we can simply not use threads 
and do explicit scheduling based on a cycle counter.

Fabrice.