Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/6] audio/hda: create millisecond timers that handle IO

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 27/06/2018 13:13, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>> Given the code runs under big qemu lock anyway the atomics are not
>> needed, so we could drop just them.  I left them in nevertheless because
>>
>>   (a) we might want try run the code in a thread instead of using a timer, 
>> and
>>   (b) I was too lazy to rewrite the code to drop the atomics.
>>
>> I'd prefer to keep option (a) ...
> 
> Well, experimented with that a bit. 
> 
> As long as the core audio system runs using qemu timers too moving to a
> thread doesn't buy us much as any latency spikes in qemu will hit us no
> matter what.
> 
> So, that point is moot.  I'll go drop the atomics.

Try stat64.  It should work just fine as it's made exactly for this kind
of simple counter.

Paolo