Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] implement qemu_blockalign

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Hi all,
> this patch adds a buffer_alignment field to BlockDriverState and
> implements a qemu_blockalign function that uses that field to allocate a
> memory aligned buffer to be used by the block driver.
> buffer_alignment is initialized to 512 but each block driver can set
> a different value (at the moment none of them do).
> This patch modifies ide.c, block-qcow.c, block-qcow2.c and block.c to
> use qemu_blockalign instead of qemu_memalign.
> There is only one place left that still uses qemu_memalign to allocate
> buffers used by block drivers that is posix-aio-compat:handle_aiocb_rw
> because it is not possible to get the BlockDriverState from that
> function. However I think it is not important because posix-aio-compat
> already deals with driver specific code so it is supposed to know its
> own needs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
>   
Applied.  Thanks.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori