Paolo,
--On 17 July 2013 10:11:07 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
The steps to achieving this:
1. Drop alarm timers from qemu-timer.c and calculate g_poll() timeout
instead for the main loop.
2. Introduce a per-AioContext aio_ctx_clock that can be used with
qemu_new_timer() to create a QEMUTimer that expires during
aio_poll().
3. Calculate g_poll() timeout for aio_ctx_clock in aio_poll().
A couple of questions:
1. How would this work where the user has no main loop, e.g. qemu-img? A
block driver may well still need timers.
The block driver should only use aio_ctx_clock, and those _would_ be
handled in aio_poll().
OK, so modify aio_poll not to run qemu_run_all_timers but to run
qemu_run_timer on that particular clock.
We'd still need to modify some of the executables to call init_timers()
or whatever it is, but that's easy enough.
I might have a go at that.
--
Alex Bligh
