Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] dataplane: remove EventPoll in favor of AioContext

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:40:34AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> During the review of the dataplane code, the EventPoll API morphed itself
> (not concidentially) into something very very similar to an AioContext.
> Thus, it is trivial to convert virtio-blk-dataplane to use AioContext,
> and a first baby step towards letting dataplane talk directly to the
> QEMU block layer.
> 
> The only interesting note is the value-copy of EventNotifiers.  At least
> in my opinion this is part of the EventNotifier API and is even portable
> to Windows.  Of course, in this case you should not close the notifier's
> underlying file descriptors or handle with event_notifier_cleanup.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/dataplane/Makefile.objs |   2 +-
>  hw/dataplane/event-poll.c  | 100 
> ---------------------------------------------
>  hw/dataplane/event-poll.h  |  40 ------------------
>  hw/dataplane/virtio-blk.c  |  48 +++++++++++++---------
>  4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 161 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 hw/dataplane/event-poll.c
>  delete mode 100644 hw/dataplane/event-poll.h

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan