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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool
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To: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>

Chris Wright wrote:
> * Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
>   
>>> It's available in recent kernels I see! so the fix is easy. Only
>>> problem is how to pass CLONE_IO to pthread_create... We'll have to
>>> make a linux-only change and call clone by hand under some #ifdef
>>> CLONE_IO.
>>>       
>> I have no problem with this and I believe Chris was going to attempt an  
>> implementation.
>>     
>
> I have an implementation that is just raw clone and futex (so not portable
> from linux/x86).  I'll post it later today.  We'll need glibc changes
> down the road to properly handle.
>   

I just committed the posix-aio switch to thread pool so it would be 
great if you could base on that.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> thanks,
> -chris
>