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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] vhost-nvme: new qemu nvme backend using nvme
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:51:22 -0800
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On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 12:27 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Do you still have a blk_set_aio_context somewhere?  I'm losing track of
> the changes.

No.

> 
> In any case, I think using a separate I/O thread is a bit premature,
> except for benchmarking.  In the meanwhile I think the best option is to
> post a two-patch series with the vendor extension and the ioeventfd
> respectively.

I'll post.

BTW, I'm not sure about qemu upstream policy.
Do I need to first make the kernel side patch upstream?
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/mlin/linux.git/log/?h=nvme-google-ext

I think the kernel side patch will take a bit longer time to upstream.

> 
> Paolo