Re: [PATCH] qemu-kvm: Switch POSIX compat AIO implementation to upstream

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On 2011-09-21 10:06, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 06:49:49PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Upstream's version is about to be signal-free and will stop handling
>> SIGUSR2 specially. So it's time to adopt its implementation, ie. switch
>> from signalfd to a pipe.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>
>> This should help pulling upstream into qemu-kvm when "block: avoid
>> SIGUSR2" is merged. And will help merging further cleanups of this code
>> I'm working on.
>>
>>  posix-aio-compat.c |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>>  1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
> 
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Perhaps qemu_eventfd() can be used in the future instead of an explicit
> pipe.  Then Linux will do eventfd while other OSes will fall back to
> pipes.

Basically simpler code, or does this also have runtime benefits?

Jan

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