Re: [Qemu-devel] Block I/O outside the QEMU global mutex was "Re: [RFC PATCH 00/17] Support for multiple "AIO contexts""

[Avi Kivity]

On 10/09/2012 04:35 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

>> Of course we can violate that and it wouldn't know a thing, but I prefer
>> to stick to the established pattern.
> 
> I wasn't suggesting that, just evaluating the different tradeoffs QEMU
> could make.  Reference counting is complicated because it has to apply
> to all objects used as opaques, and we're using things other than the
> DeviceState as opaques in many cases.

In the last episode we had MemoryRegionOps::ref/unref() to work around that.

But yes, it's complicated, and we haven't started to deal with cycles yet.

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