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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/7] dataplane: switch to N:M devices-per-thr


From: Stefan Hajnoczi
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 0/7] dataplane: switch to N:M devices-per-thread model
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:27:28 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 11:30:01AM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> v6:
>  * Rename to object_get_canonical_path_component() [Andreas]
>  * Add g_assert(obj) in object_get_canonical_path_component() [Andreas]
> 
> v5:
>  * Use Igor's get_pointer() malloc string patch [Igor]
>  * Add object_get_canonical_basename() and use it for iothread_get_id() [Igor]
> 
> v4:
>  * Rename qdev property to virtio-blk-pci,x-iothread= since we will switch to
>    QOM links once object_property_add_link() is fixed [bonzini]
> 
> v3:
>  * Fixed "Reliquinish" typo [fam]
>  * Rebased onto qemu.git/master which now has Igor's -object improvements
> 
> v2:
>  * Based off Igor's "-object/object-add support custom location and 2nd stage
>    initialization" series
>  * Dropped dedicated -iothread option in favor of -object
>  * Avoid re-acquiring rfifo in iothread_run() [mdroth]
> 
> This series moves the event loop thread out of dataplane code.  It makes
> -object iothread,id=foo a separate concept so several devices can be bound to
> same iothread.
> 
> Syntax:
> 
>   qemu -object iothread,id=iothread0 \
>        -device virtio-blk-pci,x-iothread=iothread0,x-data-plane=on,...
> 
> For backwards-compatibility the iothread= parameter can be omitted.  A
> per-device IOThread will be created behind the scenes (just like the old 1:1
> threading model).
> 
> This series includes the aio_context_acquire/release API which makes it easy 
> to
> synchronize access to AioContext across threads.
> 
> After this series I will send separate patches for a "query-iothreads" command
> that returns thread IDs similar to "query-cpus".  This will allow binding
> dataplane threads to host CPUs.
> 
> Igor Mammedov (1):
>   qdev: make get_pointer() handle temporary strings
> 
> Stefan Hajnoczi (6):
>   object: add object_get_canonical_path_component()
>   rfifolock: add recursive FIFO lock
>   aio: add aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release()
>   iothread: add I/O thread object
>   iothread: add "iothread" qdev property type
>   dataplane: replace internal thread with IOThread
> 
>  Makefile.objs                    |   1 +
>  async.c                          |  18 ++++++
>  hw/block/dataplane/virtio-blk.c  |  96 +++++++++++++++++--------------
>  hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c |  70 ++++++++++++++++++++---
>  include/block/aio.h              |  18 ++++++
>  include/hw/qdev-properties.h     |   3 +
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-blk.h   |   8 ++-
>  include/qemu/rfifolock.h         |  54 ++++++++++++++++++
>  include/qom/object.h             |   8 +++
>  include/sysemu/iothread.h        |  30 ++++++++++
>  iothread.c                       | 119 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  qom/object.c                     |  54 ++++++++++--------
>  tests/Makefile                   |   2 +
>  tests/test-aio.c                 |  58 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-rfifolock.c           |  90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  util/Makefile.objs               |   1 +
>  util/rfifolock.c                 |  78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  17 files changed, 634 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/qemu/rfifolock.h
>  create mode 100644 include/sysemu/iothread.h
>  create mode 100644 iothread.c
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-rfifolock.c
>  create mode 100644 util/rfifolock.c

Applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan



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