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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] experimental native preadv/pwritev support


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] experimental native preadv/pwritev support for Linux
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:36:16 +0200

On 3/14/09, Christoph Hellwig <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>  This ties up Gerd Hoffmann's unmegred preadv/pwritev syscalls to qemu.  Use 
> with
>  care as the syscall numbers aren't finalized yet.
>
>  If someone of the BSD folks is interested it should be trivial to tie this up
>  for the preadv/pwritev syscalls that have been around there for a while.

At least OpenBSD has preadv & pwritev.

>  Probably wants some optimization to not try preadv/pwritev again once we got
>  the first ENOSYS.

I'd add a check to configure to see if preadv exist and then define
HAVE_PREADV. Though it's not possible to see if the kernel supports
preadv if libc support does not exist (checking features by running
programs breaks cross compilation).




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