From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
To: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>,
qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] aiopool: protect with a mutex
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 16:19:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJvyCmFMlsbyni0L@stefanha-x1.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210510085941.22769-7-eesposit@redhat.com>
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On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:59:41AM +0200, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> Divide the fields in AioTaskPool in IN and Status, and
> introduce a CoQueue instead of .wait to take care of suspending
> and resuming the calling coroutine, and a lock to protect the
> busy_tasks counter accesses and the AioTask .ret field.
The thread-safety concerns with the aio_task.h API are unclear to me.
The API is designed to have a "main" coroutine that adds task
functions to the pool and waits for them to complete. Task functions
execute in coroutines (up to the pool's max_busy_tasks limit).
It seems like the API was designed to be called only from its main
coroutine so why make everything thread-safe? Is there a caller that
shares an AioTaskPool between threads? Or will the task functions switch
threads somehow?
What exactly is the new thread-safety model? Please document it.
Unfortunately aio_task.h doesn't have doc comments already but it will
be necessary if there are thread-safety concerns.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-12 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-10 8:59 [PATCH 0/6] block-copy: make helper APIs thread safe Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 1/6] ratelimit: treat zero speed as unlimited Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:00 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 2/6] block-copy: let ratelimit handle a speed of 0 Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:06 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 3/6] blockjob: " Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:17 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 4/6] progressmeter: protect with a mutex Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:28 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-10 16:52 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 17:17 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-10 17:57 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-11 12:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-12 7:09 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-12 15:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] co-shared-resource: " Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:40 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-11 8:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-12 15:44 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-05-12 18:30 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-14 14:10 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-14 14:26 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy via
2021-05-14 14:32 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-14 15:30 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy via
2021-05-14 17:28 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-14 21:15 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy via
2021-05-14 21:53 ` Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-15 7:11 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy via
2021-05-14 17:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-10 8:59 ` [PATCH 6/6] aiopool: " Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito
2021-05-10 11:56 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-11 8:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-05-12 15:19 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2021-05-10 10:55 ` [PATCH 0/6] block-copy: make helper APIs thread safe Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2021-05-12 14:24 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
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