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1e5b9d2f 10/30/2009 03:39 pm Kevin Wolf

Remove aio_ctx from paio_* interface

The context parameter in paio_submit isn't used anyway, so there is no reason
why block drivers should need to remember it. This also avoids passing a Linux
AIO context to paio_submit (which doesn't do any harm as long as the parameter...

b2e12bc6 09/11/2009 06:19 pm Christoph Hellwig

block: add aio_flush operation

Instead stalling the VCPU while serving a cache flush try to do it
asynchronously. Use our good old helper thread pool to issue an
asynchronous fdatasync for raw-posix. Note that while Linux AIO
implements a fdatasync operation it is not useful for us because...

9ef91a67 08/28/2009 04:30 am Christoph Hellwig

raw-posix: refactor AIO support

Currently the raw-posix.c code contains a lot of knowledge about the
asynchronous I/O scheme that is mostly implemented in posix-aio-compat.c.
All this code does not really belong here and is getting a bit in the
way of implementing native AIO on Linux....

5c6c3a6c 08/28/2009 04:30 am Christoph Hellwig

raw-posix: add Linux native AIO support

Now that do have a nicer interface to work against we can add Linux native
AIO support. It's an extremly thing layer just setting up an iocb for
the io_submit system call in the submission path, and registering an...