Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] port network layer onto glib

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 13/03/2013 06:59, Liu Ping Fan ha scritto:
> These series aim to port network backend onto glib, and
> prepare for moving towards making network layer mutlit-thread.
> The brief of the whole aim and plan is documented on 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/network_reentrant
> 
> In these series, attach each NetClientState with a GSource
> At the first, I use AioContext instead of GSource, but after discussion,
> I think with GSource, we can integrated with glib more closely.

Integrating with glib by itself is pointless.  What is the *benefit*?

We have a pretty good idea of how to make multithreaded device models
using AioContext, since we are using it for the block layer and
virtio-blk dataplane.  Doing the same work twice, on two different
frameworks, doesn't seem like a very good idea.

Paolo