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* push down vector linearization to posix-aio-compat.c (Christoph Hellwig)aliguori2009-04-071-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make all AIO requests vectored and defer linearization until the actual I/O thread. This prepares for using native preadv/pwritev. Also enables asynchronous direct I/O by handling that case in the I/O thread. Qcow and qcow2 propably want to be adopted to directly deal with multi-segment requests, but that can be implemented later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@7020 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
* new scsi-generic abstraction, use SG_IO (Christoph Hellwig)aliguori2009-03-281-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Okay, I started looking into how to handle scsi-generic I/O in the new world order. I think the best is to use the SG_IO ioctl instead of the read/write interface as that allows us to support scsi passthrough on disk/cdrom devices, too. See Hannes patch on the kvm list from August for an example. Now that we always do ioctls we don't need another abstraction than bdrv_ioctl for the synchronous requests for now, and for asynchronous requests I've added a aio_ioctl abstraction keeping it simple. Long-term we might want to move the ops to a higher-level abstraction and let the low-level code fill out the request header, but I'm lazy enough to leave that to the people trying to support scsi-passthrough on a non-Linux OS. Tested lightly by issuing various sg_ commands from sg3-utils in a guest to a host CDROM device. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@6895 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
* Rename sigev_signo to avoid FreeBSD problems (Juergen Lock)blueswir12009-01-241-1/+1
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* Use kill instead of sigqueue: re-enables AIO on OpenBSDblueswir12009-01-171-1/+1
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* Replace posix-aio with custom thread poolaliguori2008-12-121-0/+56
glibc implements posix-aio as a thread pool and imposes a number of limitations. 1) it limits one request per-file descriptor. we hack around this by dup()'ing file descriptors which is hideously ugly 2) it's impossible to add new interfaces and we need a vectored read/write operation to properly support a zero-copy API. What has been suggested to me by glibc folks, is to implement whatever new interfaces we want and then it can eventually be proposed for standardization. This requires that we implement our own posix-aio implementation though. This patch implements posix-aio using pthreads. It immediately eliminates the need for fd pooling. It performs at least as well as the current posix-aio code (in some circumstances, even better). Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5996 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
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