Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/6] Wrapper function to wait on condition for the main loop mutex

[Aravinda Prasad]

On Tuesday 26 March 2019 09:50 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 01:06:08PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Monday 25 March 2019 11:47 AM, David Gibson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:03:49PM +0530, Aravinda Prasad wrote:
>>>> Introduce a wrapper function to wait on condition for
>>>> the main loop mutex. This function atomically releases
>>>> the main loop mutex and causes the calling thread to
>>>> block on the condition.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Aravinda Prasad <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> I don't see much value to this.  It's not really more expressive, and
>>> is barely shorted than just open coding
>>>     qemu_cond_wait(cond, &qemu_global_mutex)
>>> wherever you need it.
>>
>> I have done this way because qemu_global_mutex is static. Do you prefer
>> removing static instead of this wrapper?
> 
> Ah, right.
> 
> I think keep the wrapper, then, but update the commit message to
> include this rationale for it.

Sure.

> 

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Regards,
Aravinda