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Author SHA1 Message Date
Marcelo Tosatti
dcc38d1cce signalfd compatibility
Port qemu-kvm's signalfd compat code.

commit 5a7fdd0abd7cd24dac205317a4195446ab8748b5
Author: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed May 7 11:55:47 2008 -0500

    Use signalfd() in io-thread

    This patch reworks the IO thread to use signalfd() instead of sigtimedwait()
    This will eliminate the need to use SIGIO everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-10-20 16:15:04 -05:00
aliguori
9e472e101f Fix IO performance regression in sparc
Replace signalfd with signal handler/pipe.  There is no way to interrupt
the CPU execution loop when a file descriptor becomes readable.  This
results in a large performance regression in sparc emulation during
bootup.
   
This patch switches us to signal handler/pipe which was originally
suggested by Ian Jackson.  The signal handler lets us interrupt the
CPU emulation loop while the write to a pipe lets us avoid the
select/signal race condition.
    
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5451 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-10-08 19:50:24 +00:00
aliguori
27463101f1 Make compatfd fallback more robust
Be more friendly when signalfd() fails, and also add configure checks to detect
that syscall(SYS_signalfd) actually works.  malc pointed out that some installs
do not have /usr/include/linux headers that are in sync with the glibc headers
so why SYS_signalfd is defined, it's #defined to _NR_signalfd which is not
defined in the /usr/include/linux header.

While this is a distro bug, it doesn't hurt to do a more thorough job in
detection.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5334 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-09-27 20:58:43 +00:00
aliguori
b8ae75538e Fix whitespace damage in compatfd
Spotted by malc.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5333 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-09-27 20:41:11 +00:00
aliguori
bcdf9b4d16 Add missing files from previous commit.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5188 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-09-10 18:18:38 +00:00