aio: add aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release()

It can be useful to run an AioContext from a thread which normally does
not "own" the AioContext.  For example, request draining can be
implemented by acquiring the AioContext and looping aio_poll() until all
requests have been completed.

The following pattern should work:

  /* Event loop thread */
  while (running) {
      aio_context_acquire(ctx);
      aio_poll(ctx, true);
      aio_context_release(ctx);
  }

  /* Another thread */
  aio_context_acquire(ctx);
  bdrv_read(bs, 0x1000, buf, 1);
  aio_context_release(ctx);

This patch implements aio_context_acquire() and aio_context_release().

Note that existing aio_poll() callers do not need to worry about
acquiring and releasing - it is only needed when multiple threads will
call aio_poll() on the same AioContext.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Stefan Hajnoczi 2014-03-03 11:30:04 +01:00
parent 2da61b671e
commit 98563fc3ec
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@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include "qemu/queue.h"
#include "qemu/event_notifier.h"
#include "qemu/thread.h"
#include "qemu/rfifolock.h"
#include "qemu/timer.h"
typedef struct BlockDriverAIOCB BlockDriverAIOCB;
@ -47,6 +48,9 @@ typedef void IOHandler(void *opaque);
struct AioContext {
GSource source;
/* Protects all fields from multi-threaded access */
RFifoLock lock;
/* The list of registered AIO handlers */
QLIST_HEAD(, AioHandler) aio_handlers;
@ -104,6 +108,20 @@ void aio_context_ref(AioContext *ctx);
*/
void aio_context_unref(AioContext *ctx);
/* Take ownership of the AioContext. If the AioContext will be shared between
* threads, a thread must have ownership when calling aio_poll().
*
* Note that multiple threads calling aio_poll() means timers, BHs, and
* callbacks may be invoked from a different thread than they were registered
* from. Therefore, code must use AioContext acquire/release or use
* fine-grained synchronization to protect shared state if other threads will
* be accessing it simultaneously.
*/
void aio_context_acquire(AioContext *ctx);
/* Relinquish ownership of the AioContext. */
void aio_context_release(AioContext *ctx);
/**
* aio_bh_new: Allocate a new bottom half structure.
*