On Tue 15 Jan 2019 03:18:00 PM CET, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> So if my understanding is correct QEMU can be shut down when there >> are iothreads waiting for a mutex. Is that something that we should >> be worried about? > > Nothing joins the iothreads in vl.c:main(). > > The assumption is that anything using iothreads will detach from them. > For example, the vm runstate changes during shutdown so devices can > disable the iothread code path (and this involves draining in-flight > requests). > > My fix effectively does this by waiting for in-flight throttling > restart coroutines.
Yeah, it's clear in the case of your fix. Thanks! Berto
