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To: qemu-devel@nongnu.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