On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 10:28:57AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 22/02/19 04:14, Peter Xu wrote: > > And if this patchset can survive... how about running gcontext > > directly in iothread_run()? I believe there could be a bit more > > things to clean but I'll see. > > Do you mean instead of aio_poll?
Yes. > The problem is that GMainContext is > quite a bit slower than aio_poll. That's really what I wanted to know; so it's about performance. We should mention it somewhere in iothread_run. I can do that after I know how this series will go. > > Frediano and I tried to bring some of the optimizations of aio_poll to > GMainContext > (https://github.com/GNOME/glib/commit/e91c11841808ccca408da96136f433a82b2e2145), > but they broke webkit. :( What a pity! -- Peter Xu
