[Qemu-devel] Re: AIO ide patch

["Vladimir N. Oleynik" <dzo@simtreas.ru>]

Fabrice,

 >> I have tried to make a variant with asynchronous input/output
 >> for ide. First worked patch attached.
 >> (this variant haven`t AIO for ATAPI, only ATA).
 >> May be not full right, but ...

 >> Good news: with this second variant patch installation w2k is full true
 >> and don`t make disk full!
 >> From second variant I moved set_irq() to thread.
 >> But, I don`t know: this save or not, but all my test cleans.

 > The disk dull problem is timing dependent.

Yes.

 > Your patches change
 > the timings, but there is no proof they really fixed the bug.

I can`t patch W2k ;-)

 > Of course it is possible that Win2K has a bug which makes
 > the IDE driver timing dependent...

My idea is not patch timing. My idea is async IO for make speed up
(guest CPU continued after host`s disk/network/sound make IO processing).

If set_pic_irq() is tread safe, I can generate more other async IO
(floppy, DMA, sound, network fd poll)...


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