Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] TCG: Convert global variables to be TLS.

[Evgeny Voevodin]

On 27.02.2012 16:35, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 27 February 2012 12:13, Evgeny Voevodin<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > This commit converts code_gen_buffer, code_gen_ptr, tbs, nb_tbs to
> > TLS. We need this if we want TCG to become multithreaded.
> I'm sceptical about doing this kind of thing as a change on its
> own. A true multithreaded TCG is a large project, and unless we're
> going to commit to doing that I don't see much value in making
> some variables per-thread when we might instead need to do
> larger refactorings (properly encapsulating the codegen
> caches as qom objects, maybe?).
>
> -- PMM

I wanted to get some feedback and points to show up a direction to move 
in this field.
And qomification of translation caches is an interesting suggestion I think.

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Kind regards,
Evgeny Voevodin,
Leading Software Engineer,
ASWG, Moscow R&D center, Samsung Electronics
e-mail: address@hidden