From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5323] Implement an fd pool to get real AIO with posix-aio
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:43:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EB8393.8020005@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KjFj7-0002oA-Vj@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> The fundamental problem with posix-aio is that it limits itself to one thread
> per-file descriptor. I don't know why this is, but this patch provides a simple
> mechanism to work around this (duplicating the file descriptor).
>
> This isn't a great solution, but it seems like a reasonable intermediate step
> between posix-aio and a custom thread-pool to replace it.
Are there plans to support vectored block requests with the thread pool
implementation?
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-26 15:59 [Qemu-devel] [5323] Implement an fd pool to get real AIO with posix-aio Anthony Liguori
2008-09-26 17:59 ` Ryan Harper
2008-09-26 18:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-26 18:50 ` Ryan Harper
2008-10-07 15:43 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2008-10-07 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-07 20:40 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-07 21:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-07 22:15 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-10-07 22:39 ` Anthony Liguori
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