Features/network reentrant
benefit of network layer re-entrant
make the component of network run on multi-thread with glib, it is easy to do unit test Finally it would be omething like qemu -object io-thread,id=thread0 \ -device virtio-net,rx[0]=thread0,tx[0]=thread0
network layer re-entrant includes
re-entrant of network core re-entrant of backend like tap re-entrant of frontend like virtio net
network core
The thread safety issue focus on NetClientState, NetQueue and hub. (proposal patches have been sent out. See:[PATCH v2 0/5] make netlayer re-entrant [1])
backend
make glib as the event loop for backends. consider about the race between the iohandler and NetClientInfo callback (make tap as the first example)
frontend
Depend on other Qemu subsystem's re-entrant. Currently, the main blockers are memory, interrupt. (make virtio net as the first example)
glib OR AioContext
disadvantage for current AioContext
1st. need to define and expand interface for other fd events, while glib open this interface for user * 2nd. need to add support for IOCanReadHandler, while gsource provide prepare, check method to allow more flexible control 3rd. block layer's AioContext will block other AioContexts on the same thread. 4th. need more document
disadvantage for glib
1st. if more than one fds on the same GSource, need re-implement something like aio_set_file_handler