Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] AioContext: optimize clearing the EventNotifier

2015-07-19 Thread Fam Zheng
On Sat, 07/18 22:21, Paolo Bonzini wrote: It is pretty rare for aio_notify to actually set the EventNotifier. It can happen with worker threads such as thread-pool.c's, but otherwise it should never be set thanks to the ctx-notify_me optimization. The previous patch, unfortunately, added an

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] AioContext: optimize clearing the EventNotifier

2015-07-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/07/2015 07:25, Paolo Bonzini wrote: /* fill pollfds */ +i = 0; QLIST_FOREACH(node, ctx-aio_handlers, node) { if (!node-deleted node-pfd.events) { add_pollfd(node); +if (node-pfd.fd == event_notifier_get_fd(ctx-notifier)) { +

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] AioContext: optimize clearing the EventNotifier

2015-07-19 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/07/2015 04:27, Fam Zheng wrote: For aio-posix, how about keeping the optimization local which doesn't need atomic operation? (no idea for win32 :) diff --git a/aio-posix.c b/aio-posix.c index 5c8b266..7e98123 100644 --- a/aio-posix.c +++ b/aio-posix.c @@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ bool

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] AioContext: optimize clearing the EventNotifier

2015-07-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
It is pretty rare for aio_notify to actually set the EventNotifier. It can happen with worker threads such as thread-pool.c's, but otherwise it should never be set thanks to the ctx-notify_me optimization. The previous patch, unfortunately, added an unconditional call to