Re: [Qemu-devel] Block layer roadmap

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 28.07.2011 14:09, schrieb Christoph Hellwig:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:37:31PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> Coroutines in the block layer [Kevin]
>>  * Programming model to simplify block drivers without blocking QEMU threads
> 
> Can anyone explain what the whole point of this is?  It really just is
> a bit of syntactic sugar for the current async state machines.  What does
> it buy us over going for real threading?

The only current block driver that really does everything in an async
state machine is qed. It's definitely not nice code, and having to
convert all of the other block drivers to this would be a lot of work.

So if it only means that we're making things async that would block the
VCPU until now, isn't that a great improvement already?

The advantage compared to threading is that it allows an easy and
incremental transition.

Kevin