Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] WIP: add GCoroutine support

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 06:19:50PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Learn to use the GCoroutine library instead of qemu own coroutine
> implementation.
> 
> GCoroutine is hosted on github:
> https://github.com/elmarco/gcoroutine
> 
> This allows to share the same coroutine implementation between various
> projects (gtk-vnc and spice-gtk). It is related to the effort to push
> coroutine support in GLib. See also:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719362
> 
> Notes:
> - there are no GCoroutine releases, the API isn't frozen
> - this patch hasn't been thoroughly tested
> - GCoroutine doesn't implement pools yet
> - GCoroutine is missing sigaltstack based coroutines
> - spice-gtk and gtk-vnc patches are being worked on

The GCoroutine API has a very direct mapping to QEMU's coroutine
interface:
https://github.com/elmarco/gcoroutine/blob/master/src/gcoroutine.h

I like that you added gpointer arguments and return values to
enter/yield.  When writing the QEMU coroutine interface I dropped them
because I felt we wouldn't need them, but they are appropriate in a
general-purpose coroutine library.

Kevin Lieven and Peter Lieven are currently measuring and improving
coroutine performance in the QEMU block layer.  I guess this will result
in code changes to QEMU's coroutines implementation over the next weeks.

Stefan

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