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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:51:20 +0100
From: Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] ide: convert pio code path to
	asynchronous I/O
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To: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Richard Davies <richard@arachsys.com>, Zhi Yong Wu <wuzhy@cn.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> The second aim of this conversion is to avoid calling bdrv_read()/bdrv_write()
> since they do not work with I/O throttling.  This means guests should now boot
> IDE drives successfully when I/O throttling is enabled.
[...]
> Chris and Richard: Please test this to confirm that it fixes the hang you
> reported.

Thanks! I'll take a look at this and report back.

Best wishes,

Chris.