Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Problem: Keyboard dead after "-loadvm"

[Paul Brook]

> IIRC, it was using threads?  We really ought to do the work to make the
> block API properly asynchronous.  It may seem tedious now, but it would
> also allow the use of something like linux-aio down the road which has the
> potential to have a pretty huge performance impact on block performance
> (with pbrook's recent SCSI emulation).

I'd expect most of the benefits would also apply to IDE (with DMA enabled, 
obviously).

I'd also expect that a well designed interface would be able to work with 
either threads or aio.

Paul