On 05/31/2011 09:06 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-05-31 15:47, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 05/29/2011 04:50 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
BeOS and Haiku don't define SIGIO. When undefined, it won't arrive
and doesn't need to be blocked.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber<andreas.faer...@web.de>
Anything to do with signal masks is never a trivial patch BTW...
But I actually think explicit handling of SIGIO is unneeded. I think
this is a hold over from the pre-I/O thread days where we selectively
set SIGIO on certain file descriptors to make sure that when an IO fd
became readable, we received a signal to break out of the KVM emulation
loop.
Can the folks on CC confirm/deny?
I can't see any use of SIGIO in the current source tree.
At least qemu-timer.c uses SIGIO in HPET mode. That only applies to
Linux hosts, though.
Is there any reason we still carry multiple timer implementations these
days?
HPET shouldn't be any better than dynticks.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Jan
