On 08/22/2011 04:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
This patch changes qemu_set_fd_handler to be implemented in terms of
g_io_add_watch(). The semantics are a bit different so some glue is
required.
qemu_set_fd_handler2 is much harder to convert because of its use of
polling.
The glib main loop has the major of advantage of having a proven
thread safe
architecture. By using the glib main loop instead of our own, it will
allow us
to eventually introduce multiple I/O threads.
I'm pretty sure that this will work on Win32, but I would appreciate
some help
testing. I think the semantics of g_io_channel_unix_new() are really
just tied
to the notion of a "unix fd" and not necessarily unix itself.
'git bisect' fingered this as responsible for breaking
qcow2+cache=unsafe. I think there's an off-by-one here and the guilty
patch is the one that switches the main loop, but that's just a guess.
The symptoms are that a guest that is restarted (new qemu process) after
install doesn't make it through grub - some image data didn't make it do
disk. With qcow2 and cache=unsafe that can easily happen through exit
notifiers not being run and the entire qcow2 metadata being thrown out
the window. Running with raw+cache=unsafe works.