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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2015-03-28 07:37:18 +0100
committerKevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>2015-04-28 15:36:09 +0200
commit0b5a24454fc551f0294fe93821e8c643214a55f5 (patch)
tree3c4e764314d8f157a31ebc4903f04161c7a44fb5 /include/standard-headers
parenta7282330c01364ef00260749bc6a37c7f16ec047 (diff)
block: avoid unnecessary bottom halves
bdrv_aio_* APIs can use coroutines to achieve asynchronicity. However, the coroutine may terminate without having yielded back to the caller (for example because of something that invokes a nested event loop, or because the coroutine is doing nothing at all). In this case, the bdrv_aio_* API must delay the completion to the next iteration of the main loop, because bdrv_aio_* will never invoke the callback before returning. This can be done with a bottom half, and indeed bdrv_aio_* is always using one for simplicity. It is possible to gain some performance (~3%) by avoiding this in the common case. A new field in the BlockAIOCBCoroutine struct is set to true until the first time the corotine has yielded to its creator, and completion goes through a new function bdrv_co_complete. If the flag is false, bdrv_co_complete invokes the callback immediately. If it is true, the caller will notice that the coroutine has completed and schedule the bottom half itself. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-id: 1427524638-28157-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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