Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] block: Removed coroutine ownership assumption

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 June 2012 09:00, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Not sure if I understood the intention yet: Is this supposed to fix an
>> issue with the current usage of coroutines or to extend their usage
>> beyond that? In the latter case, please don't do this. We'd rather like
>> to get rid of them long term.

> My extended usage, which is under development and not ready for the
> list. But are you saying qemu-coroutine is deprecated? If so Ill just
> re-impelement my work with threads, mutexes and condition vars, but
> coroutines are the most natural way of doing it.

Basically coroutines are nastily unportable and we've had a set
of problems with them (as witness the fact that we have three
separate backend implementations!). There is supposedly some sort
of migration plan for getting them out of the block layer eventually;
they're a kind of halfway house for avoiding synchronous I/O there
AIUI. I would much prefer not to see any further use of them in new
code. Fundamentally C doesn't support coroutines and it's much better
to just admit that IMHO and use more idiomatic design approaches
instead.

-- PMM