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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] Direct IDE I/O
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Gerd Hoffmann, le Mon 03 Dec 2007 22:13:07 +0100, a écrit :
> > 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)
> 
> IMHO it would be a much better idea to kill the aio interface altogether
> and instead make the block drivers reentrant.  Then you can use
> (multiple) posix threads to run the I/O async if you want.

Mmm, that will not make my life easier... I'm precisely trying to avoid
threads so as to get better throughput.

Samuel