Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 05:11:08PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Yes.  But kernel aio requires O_DIRECT, so aio users are affected
> nevertheless.

Are you sure? It surely wasn't the case...

> Havn't tested that.  Could be it isn't a big problem, extra code size
> for the two modes aside.

There shouldn't be any problem.

> Kernel side looks easy, attached patch + syscall table windup in all
> archs ...

So should we depend on this?