Re: [PATCH 17/30] virtiofsd: Add main virtio loop

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:07:25PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Marc-André Lureau (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 1:26 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > Processes incoming requests on the vhost-user fd.
> > 
> > Is there a reason to avoid using glib & its main loop?
> 
> Not particularly;  would it actually work out any easier?
> Is there an easy way to get the glib loop to check something like
> the fuse_session_exited at each iteration.
> 
> I probably didn't originally because I wasn't sure if this code
> was going back into libfuse or staying here; and libfuse doesn't
> use glib.

I tried to convert this to glib a few months ago, but stopped because
libvhost-user-glib.c is difficult to use from multiple threads.  If I
remember correctly we'd need to change it quite a bit to make
multi-threaded vhost-user device backends possible and I gave up.

Stefan

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