Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] [PATCHv10 00/31] aio / timers: Add AioContext timers and use ppoll

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:25:25AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 18/09/2013 11:02, Alex Bligh ha scritto:
> > Paolo,
> > 
> > On 18 Sep 2013, at 09:23, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > 
> >>> Yes, that was my understanding too.  Can we do it for 1.7?
> > 
> > Whilst we are changing the calling semantics, do you think
> > qemu_coroutine_yield() should also run the timers for the
> > aio_context? IE should timers always be deferred to the
> > next qemu_aio_wait() / aio_poll(), or should we make it
> > so they can run whenever there is a 'schedule' between
> > coroutines?
> 
> No, they should be left for the next aio_poll().

I agree.  Besides the side-effects, I want to avoid coupling coroutines
too deeply with event loop entities like timers.  They should not know
about each other.

Stefan