On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> wrote: > On 06/03/2010 07:31 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> >> On 06/03/2010 10:56 AM, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: >>> >>> Add qemu wrappers for pthread_attr_t handling. >> >> The point of these wrappers AFAIU is not only to add error_exit, but also >> to be portable to Windows in the future. Is it necessary to create the >> threads as detached? If you set queue->min_threads to zero all threads >> should exit as soon as they finish their work (which is better than exiting >> immediately). > > This is historical because the code was largely inspired by glibc's > implementation of posix-aio. It doesn't need to be detached and since > Corentin wants to be able to join a worker, it makes sense to just avoid > detaching and pay the overhead of making the threads joinable. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori
Actually, I want to know if the queue is empty and if no job are currently being processed: all worker are idle or stopped. I don't really need pthread_join() for that, since worker can be idle (we don't want to always start and stop the thread :) ). -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net
