On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:51:23 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: >> IDE only supports one outstanding request, so having a thread that runs >> the synchronous block routines appears reasonable. However, SATA and SCSI >> both support multiple outstanding requests. The extension to the existing >> patch would be simple--increase the number of threads. > > ??? > > Wasn't there another variant using the async-I/O support of the Host OS > and thereby supporting a larger number of outstanding requests?
Not that I know of. Do you have a pointer? > The approch that i mentioned above (using the host's async I/O) is what > you mean with using linux-aio, right? It depends on what you mean by the host's async I/O implementation. >> So the current thread-based async dma patch is really just the wrong long >> term solution. A more long term solution is likely in the works. It >> requires quite a bit of code modification though. > > I see. So in other words: > > don't ask for simple async I/O now. The more complex and flexible > sollution will follow soon. Yes, hopefully really soon. Regards, Anthony Liguori > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
