Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/4] hw/qxl-render: drop cursor locks, replace with pipe

[Alon Levy]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:29:03AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> On 03/17/11 11:27, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:48:43AM +0100, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>> Same for the asserts below, writes are from spice server thread, reads
> >>> are in iothread.
> >>
> >> But shouldn't this make it try to reconnect? Even if the reconnect
> >> fails, it shouldn't kill the guest IMHO.
> > 
> > reconnect? between two threads in the qemu process? why would the write
> > fail to begin with? this is like saying if I'm failing a kvm ioctl I should
> > just retry.
> 
> Ah ok, I missed that part, somehow I had in my mind it was two different
> processes, despite you mentioning threads.
> 
> Still if gfx handling fails, it shouldn't nuke the guest.

ok, try to apply that logic to any other device - network, usb, etc., I don't
think it holds.

> 
> Cheers,
> Jes
>