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From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads
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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 08:09:52PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 03:45 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:02:03PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>    
>>> As far as I'm concerned, Windows support is already deprecated as noone
>>> has stepped up to enhance it or support for a number of years now.  We
>>> shouldn't remove existing code that supports it or refuse to take
>>> reasonable patches but if enabling IO thread by default breaks it, so be
>>> it.
>>>      
>> As far as I see, Blue Swirl and Stefan Weil are regularly committing
>> fixes for win32. Stefan Weil is also providing win32 binaries on his
>> website [1]. I wouldn't call that deprecated.
>>    
>
> Occasional compile fixes is a long way from something that is regularly  
> tested and well maintained.
>
> Win32 still doesn't have a proper AIO implementation which is probably  
> close to a 4 year old FIXME.
>

I forget to remember when we decided that AIO should be implemented on
any host OS. Any pointer?

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