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

[liu ping fan]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
One thing is that AioContext lacks of something which can handle
IOCanReadHandler.

Regards,
Pingfan
> Paolo