Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] migration/multifd: Join the TLS thread

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 05:15:07PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 08:53:45AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > AFAICS, it is not ovewriting 'p->thread' because at the time when the
> > TLS thread is created, the main 'send thread' has not yet been
> > created. The TLS thread and send thread execution times are mutually
> > exclusive.
> 
> IIUC it'll be overwritten after the tls handshake, where in the tls thread
> uses multifd_channel_connect() to create the ultimate multifd thread with
> the same p->thread variable:
> 
>     qemu_thread_create(&p->thread, p->name, multifd_send_thread, p,
>                        QEMU_THREAD_JOINABLE);
> 
> There it'll overwrite the old value setup by p->thread, hence the tls
> thread resource should be leaked until QEMU quits when created with
> JOINABLE in both contexts.

Ah yes, missed that, you're right.

With regards,
Daniel
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