AioContext: export and use aio_dispatch

So far, aio_poll's scheme was dispatch/poll/dispatch, where
the first dispatch phase was used only in the GSource case in
order to avoid a blocking poll.  Earlier patches changed it to
dispatch/prepare/poll/dispatch, where prepare is aio_compute_timeout.

By making aio_dispatch public, we can remove the first dispatch
phase altogether, so that both aio_poll and the GSource use the same
prepare/poll/dispatch scheme.

This patch breaks the invariant that aio_poll(..., true) will not block
the first time it returns false.  This used to be fundamental for
qemu_aio_flush's implementation as "while (qemu_aio_wait()) {}" but
no code in QEMU relies on this invariant anymore.  The return value
of aio_poll() is now comparable with that of g_main_context_iteration.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 42 deletions

diff --git a/aio-posix.c b/aio-posix.c
index 798a3ff532..0936b4ff9d 100644
--- a/aio-posix.c
+++ b/aio-posix.c
@@ -119,12 +119,21 @@ bool aio_pending(AioContext *ctx)
     return false;
 }
 
-static bool aio_dispatch(AioContext *ctx)
+bool aio_dispatch(AioContext *ctx)
 {
     AioHandler *node;
     bool progress = false;
 
     /*
+     * If there are callbacks left that have been queued, we need to call them.
+     * Do not call select in this case, because it is possible that the caller
+     * does not need a complete flush (as is the case for aio_poll loops).
+     */
+    if (aio_bh_poll(ctx)) {
+        progress = true;
+    }
+
+    /*
      * We have to walk very carefully in case aio_set_fd_handler is
      * called while we're walking.
      */
@@ -184,22 +193,9 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
 
     /* aio_notify can avoid the expensive event_notifier_set if
      * everything (file descriptors, bottom halves, timers) will
-     * be re-evaluated before the next blocking poll().  This happens
-     * in two cases:
-     *
-     * 1) when aio_poll is called with blocking == false
-     *
-     * 2) when we are called after poll().  If we are called before
-     *    poll(), bottom halves will not be re-evaluated and we need
-     *    aio_notify() if blocking == true.
-     *
-     * The first aio_dispatch() only does something when AioContext is
-     * running as a GSource, and in that case aio_poll is used only
-     * with blocking == false, so this optimization is already quite
-     * effective.  However, the code is ugly and should be restructured
-     * to have a single aio_dispatch() call.  To do this, we need to
-     * reorganize aio_poll into a prepare/poll/dispatch model like
-     * glib's.
+     * be re-evaluated before the next blocking poll().  This is
+     * already true when aio_poll is called with blocking == false;
+     * if blocking == true, it is only true after poll() returns.
      *
      * If we're in a nested event loop, ctx->dispatching might be true.
      * In that case we can restore it just before returning, but we
@@ -207,26 +203,6 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
      */
     aio_set_dispatching(ctx, !blocking);
 
-    /*
-     * If there are callbacks left that have been queued, we need to call them.
-     * Do not call select in this case, because it is possible that the caller
-     * does not need a complete flush (as is the case for aio_poll loops).
-     */
-    if (aio_bh_poll(ctx)) {
-        blocking = false;
-        progress = true;
-    }
-
-    /* Re-evaluate condition (1) above.  */
-    aio_set_dispatching(ctx, !blocking);
-    if (aio_dispatch(ctx)) {
-        progress = true;
-    }
-
-    if (progress && !blocking) {
-        goto out;
-    }
-
     ctx->walking_handlers++;
 
     g_array_set_size(ctx->pollfds, 0);
@@ -264,15 +240,10 @@ bool aio_poll(AioContext *ctx, bool blocking)
 
     /* Run dispatch even if there were no readable fds to run timers */
     aio_set_dispatching(ctx, true);
-    if (aio_bh_poll(ctx)) {
-        progress = true;
-    }
-
     if (aio_dispatch(ctx)) {
         progress = true;
     }
 
-out:
     aio_set_dispatching(ctx, was_dispatching);
     return progress;
 }