Re: [PATCH 08/20] qemu-kvm: Replace kvm_update_interrupt_request with qemu_cpu_kick

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On 2011-05-29 18:19, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/27/2011 03:19 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Activate the iothread version of qemu_cpu_kick. We just need to
>> initialize the yet unused CPUState::halt_cond for it.
>>
>> This finally obsoletes kvm_update_interrupt_request, so drop it.
>>
> 
> void qemu_cpu_kick(void *_env)
> {
>     CPUState *env = _env;
> 
>     qemu_cond_broadcast(env->halt_cond);
>     if (!env->thread_kicked) {
>         qemu_cpu_kick_thread(env);
>         env->thread_kicked = true;
>     }
> }
> 
> Seems to have redundancies - we're both signalling a condition variable
> and sending a signal.
> 

The target may block on the halt condition or run in guest mode. I don't
think we can (and should) try to find out which wakeup call is sufficient.

Jan

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