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2016-10-28iothread: release AioContext around aio_pollPaolo Bonzini1-17/+23
This is the first step towards having fine-grained critical sections in dataplane threads, which will resolve lock ordering problems between address_space_* functions (which need the BQL when doing MMIO, even after we complete RCU-based dispatch) and the AioContext. Because AioContext does not use contention callbacks anymore, the unit test has to be changed. Previously applied as a0710f7995f914e3044e5899bd8ff6c43c62f916 and then reverted. Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1477565348-5458-19-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
2014-08-15docs/multiple-iothreads.txt: add documentation on IOThread programmingStefan Hajnoczi1-0/+134
This document explains how IOThreads and the main loop are related, especially how to write code that can run in an IOThread. Currently only virtio-blk-data-plane uses these techniques. The next obvious target is virtio-scsi; there has also been work on virtio-net. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>