Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 v2] Direct IDE I/O

[Paul Brook]

> Well, let's separate a few things.  QEMU uses posix-aio which uses
> threads and normal read/write operations.  It also limits the number of
> threads that aio uses to 1 which effectively makes everything
> synchronous anyway.

This is a bug. Allegedly this is to workaround an old broken glibc, so we 
should probably make it conditional on old glibc.

Paul