Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] honor IDE_DMA_BUF_SECTORS

[Samuel Thibault]

Avi Kivity, le Thu 26 Mar 2009 14:10:20 +0200, a écrit :
> I realize your use case will probably not trigger this, but it does 
> indicate you're limiting at the wrong layer.  It places the burden on 
> all callers of block format drivers instead of centralizing it.

Then it should be centralized in the block layer instead of placing the
burden on all block format drivers ;)

One thing for instance that still have been overlooked although patches
have been sent is block-raw-posix' read/write_pread_aligned() that
consider partial read/writes as an error.  That's a bug.

Samuel