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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by
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To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>

On 02/08/2011 08:26 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> I forget to remember when we decided that AIO should be implemented on
> any host OS. Any pointer?

To be fair, I/O-heavy workloads are almost unusable without AIO.  For 
Window targets, they also crash under SMP due to the Windows AP 
watchdog.  But then TCG and SMP do not go very well together anyway.

However, I think deprecating Win32 support would be a very bad idea.

Paolo