Re: [Qemu-devel] [5323] Implement an fd pool to get real AIO with posix-aio

[Gerd Hoffmann]

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> The fundamental problem with posix-aio is that it limits itself to one thread
> per-file descriptor.  I don't know why this is, but this patch provides a 
> simple
> mechanism to work around this (duplicating the file descriptor).
> 
> This isn't a great solution, but it seems like a reasonable intermediate step
> between posix-aio and a custom thread-pool to replace it.

Are there plans to support vectored block requests with the thread pool
implementation?

cheers,
  Gerd