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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] iothread: delay the context release to fina
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Peter Xu |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] iothread: delay the context release to finalize |
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:23:30 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 09:09:22PM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> On Fri, 09/22 16:56, Peter Xu wrote:
> > When gcontext is used with iothread, the context will be destroyed
> > during iothread_stop(). That's not good since sometimes we would like
> > to keep the resources until iothread is destroyed, but we may want to
> > stop the thread before that point.
>
> Would be nice if you can also mention the glib bug that "required" this in the
> commit message.
I can add it, but I am not sure it's very closely related (and I'm
afraid that may confuse more people). Say, even without that bug, I
would still think it not a good idea to free the context in the loop,
especially considering that we have the finalize function there. Thanks,
>
> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
>
> >
> > Delay the destruction of gcontext to iothread finalize. Then we can do:
> >
> > iothread_stop(thread);
> > some_cleanup_on_resources();
> > iothread_destroy(thread);
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > iothread.c | 6 ++++--
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/iothread.c b/iothread.c
> > index 894756b..b95369b 100644
> > --- a/iothread.c
> > +++ b/iothread.c
> > @@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ static void *iothread_run(void *opaque)
> > g_main_loop_unref(loop);
> >
> > g_main_context_pop_thread_default(iothread->worker_context);
> > - g_main_context_unref(iothread->worker_context);
> > - iothread->worker_context = NULL;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > @@ -117,6 +115,10 @@ static void iothread_instance_finalize(Object *obj)
> > IOThread *iothread = IOTHREAD(obj);
> >
> > iothread_stop(iothread);
> > + if (iothread->worker_context) {
> > + g_main_context_unref(iothread->worker_context);
> > + iothread->worker_context = NULL;
> > + }
> > qemu_cond_destroy(&iothread->init_done_cond);
> > qemu_mutex_destroy(&iothread->init_done_lock);
> > if (!iothread->ctx) {
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
> >
--
Peter Xu
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/09/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/09/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/09/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2017/09/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] iothread: provide helpers for internal use, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/09/22
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] iothread: export iothread_stop(), Peter Xu, 2017/09/22
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] iothread: delay the context release to finalize, Peter Xu, 2017/09/22