Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Protect outbuf from concurrent access

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 09/02/11 17:31, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 05:18 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Can you just use a bottom half to defer this work to the I/O thread?
> > > Bottom half scheduling has to be signal safe which means it will also be
> > > thread safe.
> >
> > Not that straight forward as I would have to pass arguments to the
> > bottom half.
>
> Can you add a variant of qemu_bh_new that accepts a sizeof for the new
> bottom half? Then the bottom half itself can be passed as the opaque and
> used for the arguments.

That wouldn't help.  I would have to create some kind of job queue which 
is then processed by the bottom half.

cheers,
  Gerd