Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 06/11] dataplane: add Linux AIO request queue

2012-12-10 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:21:22PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote: > Am 05.12.2012 21:47, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > > The IOQueue has a pool of iocb structs and a function to add new > > read/write requests. Multiple requests can be added before calling the > > submit function to actually tell the host

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 06/11] dataplane: add Linux AIO request queue

2012-12-07 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 05.12.2012 21:47, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: > The IOQueue has a pool of iocb structs and a function to add new > read/write requests. Multiple requests can be added before calling the > submit function to actually tell the host kernel to begin I/O. This > allows callers to batch requests and su

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 06/11] dataplane: add Linux AIO request queue

2012-12-05 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
The IOQueue has a pool of iocb structs and a function to add new read/write requests. Multiple requests can be added before calling the submit function to actually tell the host kernel to begin I/O. This allows callers to batch requests and submit them in one go. The actual I/O is performed usin