Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] SCSI passthrough cleanup

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Two questions:

- Why do you use AIO ? If the Linux sg device supports selects, then
using the QEMU select() callback suffices.

- Why do you use a block device ?

Regards,

Fabrice.

Laurent Vivier wrote:
> This series of patches makes some cleanups in SCSI passthrough and
> add functionnalities.
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> [PATCH 1/5] reverse scsi-generic
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> Reverse previous implementation and restore block-raw-posix.c.
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> [PATCH 2/5] Move AIO
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> This patche moves raw AIO part from block-raw-posix.c to qemu-aio-raw.c.
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> [PATCH 3/5] Add block SG interface
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> This patch re-implement scsi-generic.c using a new block interface.
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> [PATCH 4/5] DVD movie support
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> This patch allows to read a protected/encrypted movie from a DVD.
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> [PATCH 5/5] SCSI device DMA split
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> This patch allows to split a READ or WRITE into several READ or WRITE.
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