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From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] non-blocking disk IO
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 16:09:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aec7e5c30510030009qb87162blc5b38a3e09ff0098@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4340D479.7030301@stanfordalumni.org>

John,

On 10/3/05, John Coiner <jcoiner@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
>
> Non-blocking disk IO now works for any type of disk image, not just
> "raw" format. There is no longer any format-specific code in the patch:
>
> http://people.brandeis.edu/~jcoiner/qemu_idedma/qemu_dma_patch.html
>
> You might want this patch if:
>   * you run a multitasking guest OS,
>   * you access a disk sometimes, and
>   * you wouldn't mind if QEMU ran a little faster.
>
> Why I have not got feedback in droves I do not understand ;)

I'd love to try out your patch, but I have too little free time as
always. I have very high hopes for this patch and I do think that this
need to be done somehow. One thing that I'd really like to see is if
this patch makes the w2k install hack obsolete...

Keeep up the good work,

/ magnus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-03  7:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-03  6:49 [Qemu-devel] [patch] non-blocking disk IO John Coiner
2005-10-03  7:09 ` Magnus Damm [this message]
2005-10-03  9:57 ` Elefterios Stamatogiannakis
2005-10-03 12:58   ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-04  7:17     ` John Coiner
2005-10-04  7:46       ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-04  8:52       ` Elefterios Stamatogiannakis
2005-10-04  9:35         ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-04 11:19           ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-04 12:22             ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-04 13:14             ` John Coiner
2005-10-04 13:20               ` Christian MICHON
2005-10-03 13:58 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-03 22:29   ` John Coiner
2005-10-04  6:41     ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-04  1:35   ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-10-04  3:25     ` John Coiner
2005-10-04  3:49     ` Henrik Nordstrom
2005-10-04  5:24       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-10-04  6:44         ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-03 18:33 ` Fabrice Bellard
2005-10-04 20:40 ` Brad Campbell
2005-10-04 23:03   ` John Coiner
2005-10-05 11:27     ` Brad Campbell
2005-10-05 14:28       ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-11-28 22:41         ` Ryan Rempel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-03 12:41 John Coiner
2005-10-04  1:34 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-10-04  3:16   ` John Coiner
2005-10-04 14:26     ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-10-04 22:11       ` John Coiner
2005-10-05  3:17         ` Troy Benjegerdes

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