On 10/11/2016 18:19, Kevin Wolf wrote: > This is part of a series that I'm working on and that aims to remove the > bdrv_aio_*() emulation in io.c. blkdebug and blkverify were easy, but for > quorum I need a few more patches, so I'm sending this out as an RFC while I > continue work on the rest (QED, and then possibly some polishing). > > After the series, quorum doesn't only use the preferred interfaces, but the > code becomes a little easier to follow and byte granularity requests are > supported. There is probably still some potential for additional cleanups in a > follow-up series, but this should already be enough to be worth merging.
Honestly I don't see the point. It seems easier, more practical and more effective to convert bdrv_aio_* to byte ranges, especially since QED would be basically a rewrite. Paolo