Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] monitor: move need_resume flag into monitor struct

[Markus Armbruster]

Peter Xu <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:51:33AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Peter Xu <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > It was put into the request object to show whether we'll need to resume
>> > the monitor after dispatching the command.  Now we move that into the
>> > monitor struct so that it might be even used in other places in the
>> > future, e.g., out-of-band message flow controls.
>> >
>> > One thing to mention is that there is no lock needed before when
>> > accessing the flag since the request object will always be owned by a
>> > single thread.  After we move it into monitor struct we need to protect
>> > that flag since it might be accessed by multiple threads now.  Renaming
>> > the qmp_queue_lock into qmp_lock to protect the flag as well.
>> >
>> > No functional change.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Marc-André's "[PATCH v3 04/38] monitor: no need to save need_resume" and
>> "[PATCH v3 05/38] monitor: further simplify previous patch" also mess
>> with need_resume.  Marc-André, could you have a look at this patch and
>> the next one?
>
> Sorry I should have looked at those before hand.  I think I must be
> waiting for another post to split the patches into two (after
> Marc-Andre poked me with that thread) but then I forgot about that.
>
> So now I suspect we'd better keep that flag since in the next patch
> the suspend operation can happen conditionally now.

Could you two together figure out how to combine your work?  Would take
me off this critical path...