Re: [Qemu-devel] Do we need CONFIG_AIO?

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:58:52PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> qemu on MiniOS is used to provide efficient full virtualisation, so yes
> it's performance sensitive, but for performances we use a block-vbd
> interface. Keeping the block-posix interface for non-performance
> critical resources that can not go through vbd is still important, so we
> need to be able to compile it.

Apparently all this is not in upstream qemu, right?  I really don't see
the reason to keep all this stuff around for out of tree bits only
given it is a significant burden.