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Register Linux dyntick timer as per-thread signal
Derived from kvm-tool patchhttp://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/74309
Ingo Molnar pointed out that sending the timer signal to the wholeprocess, just blocking it everywhere, is suboptimal with an increasing...
signalfd compatibility
Port qemu-kvm's signalfd compat code.
commit 5a7fdd0abd7cd24dac205317a4195446ab8748b5Author: 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()...
Fix IO performance regression in sparc
Replace signalfd with signal handler/pipe. There is no way to interruptthe CPU execution loop when a file descriptor becomes readable. Thisresults in a large performance regression in sparc emulation duringbootup....
Fix the build on non-Linux systems
It turns out, we're never reading from the signalfd() which is causing it toremain readable forever. I'll fix this up but I thought I'd commit this fixin the interim.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>...
Add missing files from previous commit.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5188 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162