From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem: Keyboard dead after "-loadvm"
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:19:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607172319.52839.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2006.07.17.22.01.23.863153@codemonkey.ws>
> IIRC, it was using threads? We really ought to do the work to make the
> block API properly asynchronous. It may seem tedious now, but it would
> also allow the use of something like linux-aio down the road which has the
> potential to have a pretty huge performance impact on block performance
> (with pbrook's recent SCSI emulation).
I'd expect most of the benefits would also apply to IDE (with DMA enabled,
obviously).
I'd also expect that a well designed interface would be able to work with
either threads or aio.
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-17 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-17 9:18 [Qemu-devel] Problem: Keyboard dead after "-loadvm" Carsten Thorenz
2006-07-17 10:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-17 14:01 ` Carsten Thorenz
2006-07-17 19:37 ` Fabrice Bellard
2006-07-17 21:28 ` Christian MICHON
2006-07-17 22:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2006-07-17 22:19 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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