QemuEvents are used heavily by call_rcu. We do not want them to be slow,
but the current implementation does a kernel call on every invocation
of qemu_event_* and won't cut it.
So, wrap a Win32 manual-reset event with a fast userspace path. The
states and transitions are the same as for the futex and mutex/condvar
implementations, but the slow path is different of course. The idea
is to reset the Win32 event lazily, as part of a test-reset-test-wait
sequence. Such a sequence is, indeed, how QemuEvents are used by
RCU and other subsystems!
The patch includes a formal model of the algorithm.
Tested-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
This emulates Win32 manual-reset events using futexes or conditional
variables. Typical ways to use them are with multi-producer,
single-consumer data structures, to test for a complex condition whose
elements come from different threads:
for (;;) {
qemu_event_reset(ev);
... test complex condition ...
if (condition is true) {
break;
}
qemu_event_wait(ev);
}
Or more efficiently (but with some duplication):
... evaluate condition ...
while (!condition) {
qemu_event_reset(ev);
... evaluate condition ...
if (!condition) {
qemu_event_wait(ev);
... evaluate condition ...
}
}
QemuEvent provides a very fast userspace path in the common case when
no other thread is waiting, or the event is not changing state.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Paolo Bonzini