On 08/18/2011 08:13 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
On 19 August 2011 03:59, 陳韋任 che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote:
More generally and not x86-specific, there are problems with
the multithreaded user-mode support which I suspect exist because
nobody has ever sat down and worked out a coherent design for
So there are a number of issues here. Firstly, x86 targets
in particular are worse than others for multi-threaded user
mode: the patch you note is almost certainly not the only
area that needs addressing. (Properly handling the x86 LOCK
prefix by making sure we take a host mutex is very
More generally and not x86-specific, there are problems with
the multithreaded user-mode support which I suspect exist because
nobody has ever sat down and worked out a coherent design for it,
including what might need to be thread-local and what locking
is required. So the result is that it
On 19 August 2011 03:59, 陳韋任 che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote:
More generally and not x86-specific, there are problems with
the multithreaded user-mode support which I suspect exist because
nobody has ever sat down and worked out a coherent design for it,
including what might need to be
Hi, all
I am wondering if there is any plan to support multi-threaded
program in QEMU. I find a patch [1] which adds i386-linux-user NPTL
support, but I don't see it's merged back into the trunk. I don't
know why. Is there any consideration or difficulty on multi-threaded
support?
Thanks!
On 18 August 2011 03:35, 陳韋任 che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw wrote:
I am wondering if there is any plan to support multi-threaded
program in QEMU. I find a patch [1] which adds i386-linux-user NPTL
support, but I don't see it's merged back into the trunk. I don't
know why. Is there any consideration
