Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 1/5] cpu: Provide vcpu throttling interface

[Juan Quintela]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/09/2015 19:12, Jason J. Herne wrote:
>> Provide a method to throttle guest cpu execution. CPUState is augmented with
>> timeout controls and throttle start/stop functions. To throttle the guest cpu
>> the caller simply has to call the throttle set function and provide a 
>> percentage
>> of throttle time.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jason J. Herne <address@hidden>
>> Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <address@hidden>
>
> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
>
> Juan, please merge through your tree.

Could you answer to my locking problem on the 1st patch?  I can't see
why we can drop the iothread lock there (for one eternity).  I am
missing something obvious ...