Il 14/03/2013 15:08, liu ping fan ha scritto: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Il 13/03/2013 06:59, Liu Ping Fan ha scritto: >>> These series aim to port network backend onto glib, and >>> prepare for moving towards making network layer mutlit-thread. >>> The brief of the whole aim and plan is documented on >>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/network_reentrant >>> >>> In these series, attach each NetClientState with a GSource >>> At the first, I use AioContext instead of GSource, but after discussion, >>> I think with GSource, we can integrated with glib more closely. >> >> Integrating with glib by itself is pointless. What is the *benefit*? >> >> We have a pretty good idea of how to make multithreaded device models >> using AioContext, since we are using it for the block layer and >> virtio-blk dataplane. Doing the same work twice, on two different >> frameworks, doesn't seem like a very good idea. >> > One thing is that AioContext lacks of something which can handle > IOCanReadHandler.
See reply to Anthony. io_flush is very similar to that. Right now it affects both reading and writing, but I think it wouldn't be a problem to make it affect io_read only. Paolo
