Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] qemu-timer: make qemu_timer_mod_ns() and qemu_timer_del() thread-safe

[Benoît Canet]

Hi Stefan,

Is there a git tree on which I could rebase my throttling series on top of
the new timers ?

Best Regards

Benoît

> Le Monday 12 Aug 2013 à 14:49:27 (+0200), Stefan Hajnoczi a écrit :
> These patches are based on Alex Bligh's v10 AioContext timers series.
> 
> The purpose of these patches is to eventually allow device models to set and
> cancel timers without holding the global mutex.  When the device model runs in
> a vcpu thread and the iothread processes timers, the
> QEMUTimerList->active_timers must be protected from concurrent access.
> 
> Patch 1 is a clean-up.
> 
> Patch 2 is the entire change needed to protect ->active_timers.
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi (2):
>   qemu-timer: drop outdated signal safety comments
>   qemu-timer: make qemu_timer_mod_ns() and qemu_timer_del() thread-safe
> 
>  include/qemu/timer.h | 17 +++++++++++++
>  qemu-timer.c         | 70 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
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> 1.8.3.1
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