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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Linux AIO support when using O_DIRECT
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:02 -0500
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Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>>
>> We would drop the signaling stuff and have the thread pool use an fd 
>> to signal.  The big problem with that right now is that it'll cause a 
>> performance regression for certain platforms until we have the IO 
>> thread in place. 
>
> Well, let's merge this after the iothread?

Yup.  Just posted that patch in case anyone was interested.  I needed it 
so that we could do some performance testing...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori