Il 21/02/2013 18:25, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> >
>> > What would be more problematic is the chardev flow control patches,
>> > which use the glib main loop directly. I don't recall your KVM forum
>> > presentation---did you need RT prioritization of the serial port too?
> It uses GSources which don't need a full glib main loop. We just need
> to be able to support glib event dispatch from whatever our main loop
> is.
The lock in g_main_context_{prepare,query,check,dispatch} is not
RT-friendly. We could have contention on that lock between the iothread
and the VCPU thread.
Paolo
> I would assume that we'd treat any glib event with the same priority if
> we ever had a RT-iothread.
