[libvirt] Redesigning Libvirt: Adopting use of a safe language

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 01:34:54PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> > Goroutines are basically a union of the thread + coroutine concepts. The
> > Go runtime will create N OS level threads, where the default N currently
> > matches the number of logical CPU cores you host has (but is tunable to
> > other values). The application code just always creates Goroutines which
> > are userspace threads just like coroutines. The Go runtime will dynamically
> > switch goroutines at key points, and automatically pick suitable OS level
> > threads to run them on to maximize concurrency. Most cleverly goroutines
> > have a 2 KB default stack size, and runtime will dynamically grow the
> > stack if that limit is reached.
> 
> Does this work even when the stack limit is exceeded in a C function?

When you make a C call in go, it runs in a separate stack. The goroutines
own stack is managed by the garbage collector, so can't be exposed to C
code. I'm unclear exactly what size the C stack would be, but it'll be
the traditional fixed size, not the grow-on-demand behaviour of the Go
stack.

Regards,
Daniel
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