From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Xen patches - status summary
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:00:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C2FD9A.8010602@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18625.2823.334560.150430@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
Ian Jackson wrote:
>>>> The QEMU_ASYNC_EVENTLOOP change is a tidying up of the NBD feature to
>>>> make qemu-nbd share more commonality with qemu-img. As discussed
>>>> there are perhaps even more cleanups that could be done to improve
>>>> this but as I say this change is a good start and should be applied.
>>>>
>>> Cleanups is, well, not the correct word IMHO. The complete block device
>>> handling needs a major redesign. That this ifdef is needed in the first
>>> place is a blatant layering violation. Also we should be able to
>>> support async I/O in some form (be it libaio, threads or whatever)
>>> without hacking support for it into each and every file format handler.
>>>
>> I have something queued up to help us get closer to this.
That was an FYI, it wasn't about your patch. I agree your patch is a
step in the right direction.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 22:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 16:44 [Qemu-devel] Xen patches - status summary Ian Jackson
2008-09-03 18:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-09-04 2:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-05 10:33 ` Ian Jackson
2008-09-06 22:00 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-09-07 3:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-04 2:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-05 10:23 ` Ian Jackson
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