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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Linux AIO support when using O_DIRECT


From: Avi Kivity
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Linux AIO support when using O_DIRECT
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:35:37 +0200
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I really dislike having so many APIs. I'd rather have an aio API that took byte accesses or have pread/pwrite always be emulated with a full sector read/write

I had patches to change the aio API to byte based access, and get rid
of the read/write methods to only have the byte based pread/pwrite
APIs, but thay got obsoleted by Avi's patch to kill the pread/pwrite
ops.  We could put in byte-based AIO without byte-based read/write,
though.  In my patches I put a flag into BlockDriverState whether we
allow byte-based access to this instance or otherwise emulated it in
the block layer.

I like this approach. An additional flag could tell us what buffer alignment the format driver wants, so we can eliminate the alignment bounce from format driver code. Oh, and a flag to indicate we don't support vectors, so the generic layer will bounce and send us a length one iovec.

Note the align flag is in the device state, not the format driver, as it depends on the cache= settings.

--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.





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