Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] block: byte-based AIO read/write

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 24.04.2018 um 21:25 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> While we would prefer that block drivers use coroutines instead
> of aio callbacks, it is a fairly easy exercise to prove that
> all existing drivers with aio callbacks are merely scaling
> from bytes into sectors and back to bytes.  So, even though I
> am not set up to completely run (or even compile-test) this
> full series, it seems pretty straightforward to change the
> signature to quit playing games with pointless scaling.
> 
> Incorporate Kevin's review on v1, which amounted to pretty much
> rewriting the series to be saner (the block layer now defaults
> to alignment of 1, so drivers that still need 512 for keeping the
> patch conservative have to override that; and improve the code
> in io.c to put byte-based access before sector-based fallbacks).

Thanks, applied to the block-next branch.

Kevin