From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] Move aio implementation out of raw block driver
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:04:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D92FC2.2000203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D91403.8090007@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> How about providing a aio interface implementation which simply uses
>> read/write syscalls (thereby not being really async obviously)? Then
>> use that as fallback instead of aio emulation? And also drop CONFIG_AIO
>> then?
>
> Yeah, this is basically what block-raw-posix does today. I was thinking
> the same thing. I was also thinking that you could do an aio
> implementation for win32 and possibly reunify block-raw-posix and
> block-raw-linux.
Sure, that the next logical steps. Later we can also convert all
block-* drivers to the new aio interface and subsequently drop alot of
dead block layer code.
> But before going down this route, I want to see if linux-aio is really
> the right tool for the job.
IMHO this all makes sense even in case linux-aio turns out to not be
worth it.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-23 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-22 23:17 [PATCH 0/3] Refactor AIO to allow multiple AIO implementations Ryan Harper
2008-09-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] Only call aio flush handler if set Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 2:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 14:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 14:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 14:41 ` Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 14:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-22 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] Move aio implementation out of raw block driver Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 1:16 ` Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 2:45 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 14:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 14:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-09-23 16:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 18:04 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2008-09-23 18:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-24 22:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
[not found] ` <1222125454-21744-4-git-send-email-ryanh@us.ibm.com>
2008-09-23 1:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] Add linux aio implementation for raw block devices Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 3:32 ` [PATCH 0/3] Refactor AIO to allow multiple AIO implementations Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 14:43 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ryan Harper
2008-09-23 14:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 16:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-23 10:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-10-02 22:41 ` john cooper
2008-10-03 13:33 ` Ryan Harper
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