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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Do we need CONFIG_AIO?
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 08:25:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1BEDD9.5040509@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1BBE31.9090106@eu.citrix.com>

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> Obviously I would prefer if threads remained optional too, but let's
> just focus on AIO for the moment: as Todd pointed out OpenBSD doesn't
> currently provide AIO and also some small libc, like newlib, do not have
> AIO either.
>   
CONFIG_AIO is a misnomer.  It no longer has anything to do with posix-aio.

It's just a standard read/write IO with a thread pool.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-26 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-25  8:21 [Qemu-devel] Do we need CONFIG_AIO? Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-25 11:49 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-05-25 12:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-25 12:58     ` Samuel Thibault
2009-05-25 13:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-25 13:26         ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-05-25 13:35   ` Todd T. Fries
2009-05-25 13:40     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-25 13:47     ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-25 15:24       ` Todd T. Fries
2009-05-25 15:27         ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-26  7:58   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-26  8:19     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-26 10:02     ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-05-26 13:25       ` Anthony Liguori [this message]

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