Stefan Hajnoczi
71973b0461
Outside the safety of the global mutex we need to poll on file descriptors. I found epoll(2) is a convenient way to do that, although other options could replace this module in the future (such as an AioContext-based loop or glib's GMainLoop). One important feature of this small event loop implementation is that the loop can be terminated in a thread-safe way. This allows QEMU to stop the data plane thread cleanly. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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