From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzGmF-0000Yx-Fg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:16:23 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzGmD-0000Xk-O0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:16:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzGmD-0000Xc-HC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:16:21 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzGmD-00060q-4p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:16:21 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] Direct IDE I/O Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:16:17 +0000 References: <11966765602186@bull.net> <47544588.10700@codemonkey.ws> <1196709044.5587.20.camel@frecb07144> In-Reply-To: <1196709044.5587.20.camel@frecb07144> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712031916.18409.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Laurent Vivier > Yes, librt is providing posix-aio, and librt coming with GNU libc uses > threads. > But if I remember correctly librt coming with RHEL uses a mix of threads > and linux kernel AIO (you can have a look to the .srpm of libc). > > BTW, if everyone thinks it could be a good idea I can port block-raw.c > to use linux kernel AIO (without removing POSIX AIO support, of course) This seems rather pointless, given a user can just use a linux-AIO librt instead. Paul