Mike,
This one's nice and clear. A few comments in line.
On 27 Feb 2014, at 19:35, Mike Day wrote:
> @@ -184,16 +178,17 @@ bool qemu_clock_has_timers(QEMUClockType type)
> bool timerlist_expired(QEMUTimerList *timer_list)
> {
> int64_t expire_time;
> +bool ret;
>
> -qemu_mutex_lock(
active_timers is a list of timer lists, associated with a Qemu Clock,
that is read-mostly. This patch converts read accesses to the list to
use RCU, which should hopefully mitigate most of the synchronization
overhead.
This patch applies against Paolo Bonzini's rcu branch:
https://github.com/bonzi
