Hi, This is the v11 of the refactored patch-series to have a generic asynchronous task offloading framework (called threadlets) within qemu.
I have run KVM autotest suite with this patch. This test suite ran successfully for the following tests: -connecthon -ebizzy -dbench -fsstress -disktest -cpu_hotplug -hackbench -sleeptest Changelog: * Moved the qemu_cond_broadcast to the right place. * Removed unnecessary extern qualifiers. The following series implements... --- Arun R Bharadwaj (1): Move threadlets infrastructure to qemu-threadlets.c Gautham R Shenoy (2): Make paio subsystem use threadlets infrastructure Add helper functions to enable virtio-9p make use of the threadlets Makefile.objs | 3 - configure | 2 docs/async-support.txt | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ hw/virtio-9p.c | 164 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- posix-aio-compat.c | 227 +++++++++++------------------------------------- qemu-threadlets.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ qemu-threadlets.h | 47 ++++++++++ vl.c | 3 + 8 files changed, 599 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/async-support.txt create mode 100644 qemu-threadlets.c create mode 100644 qemu-threadlets.h -- arun