[Qemu-devel] Re: AIO ide patch

[Fabrice Bellard]

Vladimir N. Oleynik wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > Hi Fabrice!
> >
> > I have tried to make a variant with asynchronous input/output
> > for ide. First worked patch attached.
> > (this variant haven`t AIO for ATAPI, only ATA).
> > May be not full right, but ...
>
>
> Good news: with this second variant patch installation w2k is full true
> and don`t make disk full!
>  From second variant I moved set_irq() to thread.
> But, I don`t know: this save or not, but all my test cleans.

The disk dull problem is timing dependent. Your patches change the 
timings, but there is no proof they really fixed the bug. Of course it 
is possible that Win2K has a bug which makes the IDE driver timing 
dependent...

Fabrice.