Re: [Qemu-devel] How to understand the coroutine context?

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:13:56AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:05:02 +0100
> Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 11:28:47PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:34:56 +0530
> > > Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 07:56:16AM +0800, Le Tan wrote:
> > > > > Hi, I am diving into the source code of qemu. I see the word
> > > > > "coroutine" appears in so many places. I can't figure out what it
> > > > > means. So, please, can anyone help me, telling me the mechanism or
> > > > > semantic of "coroutine"? Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > This might be of help --
> > > > http://blog.vmsplice.net/2014/01/coroutines-in-qemu-basics.html
> > > 
> > > That's a very nice introduction ... Stefan, maybe you could also add
> > > that to the docs directory of the QEMU repository? There does not seem
> > > to be a description of the QEMU coroutines there yet...
> > 
> > Have you seen the documentation in include/block/coroutine.h?
> 
> Yes, but that does not have the nice introduction that you've given in
> your blog - that's why I though it might be useful to have that
> information in a file in the docs directory, too. Well, it was just an
> idea ... if you think the API description in coroutine.h is sufficient,
> I am certainly fine with that.

I will expand the documentation in include/block/coroutine.h.

Stefan