aio: add generic thread-pool facility

Add a generic thread-pool.  The code is roughly based on posix-aio-compat.c,
with some changes, especially the following:

- use QemuSemaphore instead of QemuCond;

- separate the state of the thread from the return code of the worker
function.  The return code is totally opaque for the thread pool;

- do not busy wait when doing cancellation.

A more generic threadpool (but still specific to I/O so that in the future
it can use special scheduling classes or PI mutexes) can have many uses:
it allows more flexibility in raw-posix.c and can more easily be extended
to Win32, and it will also be used to do an msync of the persistent bitmap.

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

1 files changed, 34 insertions, 0 deletions

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+/*
+ * QEMU block layer thread pool
+ *
+ * Copyright IBM, Corp. 2008
+ * Copyright Red Hat, Inc. 2012
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Anthony Liguori   <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
+ *  Paolo Bonzini     <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.  See
+ * the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ * Contributions after 2012-01-13 are licensed under the terms of the
+ * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
+ */
+
+#ifndef QEMU_THREAD_POOL_H
+#define QEMU_THREAD_POOL_H 1
+
+#include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qemu-queue.h"
+#include "qemu-thread.h"
+#include "qemu-coroutine.h"
+#include "block_int.h"
+
+typedef int ThreadPoolFunc(void *opaque);
+
+BlockDriverAIOCB *thread_pool_submit_aio(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg,
+     BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque);
+int coroutine_fn thread_pool_submit_co(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg);
+void thread_pool_submit(ThreadPoolFunc *func, void *arg);
+
+#endif