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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Lyu Mitnick <mitnick.lyu@gmail.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Improved image format compatibility
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:29:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D95FD80.6050303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTima7pRswOZLrQKt9G7vKUFDteOSYT6ppMtP2BEw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 01.04.2011 17:15, schrieb Lyu Mitnick:
> Hello Stefan
> 
>     Hello Mitnick,
> 
>     asynchronous i/o is also missing in block/vpc.c.
> 
>     All newer block drivers support asynchronous reads and writes,
>     only some old drivers don't.
> 
>     So adding asynchronous i/o to at least some of the old drivers
>     would improve their usability.
> 
>     Look for "aio" in block/*.c to get a starting point.
> 
>     Regards
>     Stefan (W.)
> 
> 
> I look for "aio" in block/*.c as a starting point of asynchronous i/o.
> And I 
> found that there isn't any "aio" keywords in block/vmdk.c. block/vmdk.c
> is used as block driver for the VMDK format. Is it means that asynchronous 
> i/o is also missing in VMDK format?

Yes, the VMDK implementation is completely synchronous.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-01 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-29 21:55 [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Improved image format compatibility Lyu Mitnick
2011-03-30  4:50 ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-30  8:32   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-30 18:40     ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-03-30 19:11       ` Stefan Weil
2011-03-30 19:36         ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 15:15         ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 16:29           ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-04-01 18:29             ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-02 13:54               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-02 19:03                 ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-03  7:33                   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-04-04 17:35                     ` Lyu Mitnick
2011-04-01 17:02           ` Stefan Weil

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