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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/16] iothread: release AioContext around aio_poll
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:34:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160203093444.GB26227@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B0C4E3.5060808@redhat.com>

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On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 04:01:55PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 02/02/2016 15:52, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >>> @@ -110,6 +111,8 @@ static void *test_acquire_thread(void
> >>> *opaque) qemu_mutex_lock(&data->start_lock); 
> >>> qemu_mutex_unlock(&data->start_lock);
> >>> 
> >>> +    g_usleep(500000);
> > Sleep?
> 
> What about it? :)

Sleep in a loop is inefficient but at least correct.

A sleep outside a loop is a race condition.  If the machine is heavily
loaded, whatever you are waiting for may not happen in 500 ms and the
test case is unreliable.

What is the purpose of this sleep?

Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-03  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 15:12 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] aio: first part of aio_context_acquire/release pushdown Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/16] aio: introduce aio_context_in_iothread Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/16] aio: do not really acquire/release the main AIO context Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/16] aio: introduce aio_poll_internal Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/16] aio: only call aio_poll_internal from iothread Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/16] iothread: release AioContext around aio_poll Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-02 14:52   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-02-02 15:01     ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-03  9:34       ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2016-02-03  9:52         ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-05 17:51           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-02-08 15:34             ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/16] qemu-thread: introduce QemuRecMutex Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/16] aio: convert from RFifoLock to QemuRecMutex Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/16] aio: rename bh_lock to list_lock Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/16] qemu-thread: introduce QemuLockCnt Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/16] aio: make ctx->list_lock a QemuLockCnt, subsuming ctx->walking_bh Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/16] qemu-thread: optimize QemuLockCnt with futexes on Linux Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/16] aio: tweak walking in dispatch phase Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/16] aio-posix: remove walking_handlers, protecting AioHandler list with list_lock Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/16] aio-win32: " Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/16] aio: document locking Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-15 15:12 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/16] aio: push aio_context_acquire/release down to dispatching Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-02  9:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/16] aio: first part of aio_context_acquire/release pushdown Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-02 17:26 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2016-02-08 16:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 " Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-08 16:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/16] iothread: release AioContext around aio_poll Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-09 11:45 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 00/16] aio: first part of aio_context_acquire/release pushdown Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-09 11:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/16] iothread: release AioContext around aio_poll Paolo Bonzini

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