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* docs: create config/, devel/ and spin/ subdirectoriesPaolo Bonzini2017-06-071-137/+0Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | Developer documentation should be its own manual. As a start, move all developer-oriented files to a separate directory. Also move non-text files to their own directories: docs/config/ for QEMU -readconfig input, and docs/spin/ for formal models to be used with the SPIN model checker. Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
* aio: document lockingPaolo Bonzini2017-01-161-8/+5Star
| | | | | | | | Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Message-id: 20170112180800.21085-10-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
* iothread: release AioContext around aio_pollPaolo Bonzini2016-10-281-17/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the first step towards having fine-grained critical sections in dataplane threads, which will resolve lock ordering problems between address_space_* functions (which need the BQL when doing MMIO, even after we complete RCU-based dispatch) and the AioContext. Because AioContext does not use contention callbacks anymore, the unit test has to be changed. Previously applied as a0710f7995f914e3044e5899bd8ff6c43c62f916 and then reverted. Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <1477565348-5458-19-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@redhat.com>
* docs/multiple-iothreads.txt: add documentation on IOThread programmingStefan Hajnoczi2014-08-151-0/+134
This document explains how IOThreads and the main loop are related, especially how to write code that can run in an IOThread. Currently only virtio-blk-data-plane uses these techniques. The next obvious target is virtio-scsi; there has also been work on virtio-net. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>