[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] vnc: don't mess up with iohandlers in the vnc thread

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/10/2011 07:06 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 01:59 PM, Corentin Chary wrote:
> > Instead, we now store the data in a temporary buffer, and use a socket
> > pair to notify the main thread that new data is available.
>
> You can use a bottom half for this instead of a special socket. 
> Signaling a bottom half is async-signal- and thread-safe.

Bottom halves are thread safe?

I don't think so.

They probably should be but they aren't today.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paolo