On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/30/2009 05:55 PM, Glauber Costa wrote: >> >> reset code is responsible for most remote calls in qemu. One of the >> only ones we still >> have left is the gdb stuff. Do you have any suggestion to do that >> without the current >> on_vcpu mechanism? >> > > No. But what's wrong with on_vcpu?
intrinsically racy. signal passing slow down things, etc. That said, as I've stated many times: I don't believe there's anything fundamentally wrong with on_vcpu. But we might get benefits from a re-design of things to avoid it whenever possible. (just like the vcpu_reset() I've just posted) -- Glauber Costa. "Free as in Freedom" http://glommer.net "The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act."
