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

[Stefano Stabellini]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> 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.
> 

I completely agree with you, but I couldn't find the time to merge all
the bits yet. I hope to find more time in the next 6 months.