On 13 Aug 2013, at 15:22, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > We can change the semantics of aio_poll() so long as we don't break > existing callers and tests. It would make sense to do that after > merging the io_flush and AioContext timers series.
Whilst I think we should wait until your 'drop ioflush' stuff is merged, without doing an audit, I doubt there is any existing code which uses an AioContext with just its notifier fd, and is calls aio_poll with blocking=1. If there is, I doubt that code does anything useful :-) -- Alex Bligh