Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] fix for #285

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Emilio,

On 19/3/23 15:15, Emilio Cota wrote:
> Ping. Any feedback on these two patches?
>
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20230205163758.416992-1-cota@braap.org/
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230205163758.416992-1-cota@braap.org/
>
> Happy to resend if needed.

Since we are past hard-freeze, this series likely missed the v8.0
release IMO. Note that doesn't mean maintainers can't queue it and
send the pull request later when the next development window opens.

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 07:44:38 -0500, Emilio Cota wrote:
> > Ping.
> >
> > This fixes a bug (admittedly with a big hammer) that affects
> > users with heavily multi-threaded user-mode workloads.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >                 Emilio
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 11:37:56 -0500, Emilio Cota wrote:
> > > Changes since v1:
> > >
> > > - Add configure check to only use QTree if Glib still implements gslice.
> > >    If Glib doesn't, then we call Glib directly with inline functions.
> > > - Add TODO's so that in the future (i.e. when the minimum version of
> > >    Glib that we use doesn't implement gslice) we remove QTree.
> > > - Add comment to the top of qtree.h.
> > > - Make qtree-bench results more robust by running longer or more times.
> > > - Drop deprecated API calls (they're unused in QEMU).
> > > - Drop API calls that are too recent (they're unused in QEMU).
> > > - Drop macro benchmark results from the TCG patch since they're too noisy.
> > > - Add test program to the commit log so that we don't lose it in the future
> > >    even if the bug tracker goes away.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >                 Emilio