Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Thread and signal safety are slightly different.
They are very different:
Virtually all libc calls are thread safe, unless they use unsafe
static data APIs.
On the other hand, the number of libc calls that are signal safe is
very limited.
For example, calling printf() i
On 01/04/2010 09:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of this for a couple reasons. The first is that
it introduces a subtle semantic change. Previously, timers always
ran before bottom halves whereas after this change, timers may run
after some bottoms halves but before others.
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 12/21/2009 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Make the timer subsystem register its own bottom half instead of
>> placing the bottom half code in the heart of the main loop. To
>> test if an alarm timer is pending, just check if
On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 12/21/2009 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Make the timer subsystem register its own bottom half instead of
placing the bottom half code in the heart of the main loop.
On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 01/04/2010 09:24 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I'm not a huge fan of this for a couple reasons. The first is that
it introduces a subtle semantic change. Previously, timers always
ran before bottom halves whereas after this change, timers may run
a
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:54:13PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/21/2009 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>
Make the timer subsystem register its own b
On 01/05/2010 12:59 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
When I think of a main loop, I think of something that provides the
following three services
1) fd based events
2) time based events
3) an idle callback
The problem we have is that bottom halves aren't quite idle callbacks.
They have some really w
On 01/05/2010 06:48 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 01/05/2010 12:59 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
When I think of a main loop, I think of something that provides the
following three services
1) fd based events
2) time based events
3) an idle callback
The problem we have is that bottom halves aren't
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:23:34PM +0300, malc wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:54:13PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrot
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:54:13PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 02:24:53PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 12/21/2009 02:09 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:32:09PM +0300, malc wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:23:34PM +0300, malc wrote:
> > > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:54:13PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:23:34PM +0300, malc wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:54:13PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > > On 01/04/2010 02:01 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > >> On
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:32:09PM +0300, malc wrote:
> > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:23:34PM +0300, malc wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon,
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