Re: [Qemu-devel] Do we need CONFIG_AIO?

[Todd T. Fries]

Penned by Stefano Stabellini on 20090525 12:49.08, we have:
| Christoph Hellwig wrote:
| 
| > Currently all aio code in the raw-posix block driver depends on a
| > CONFIG_AIO symbol that gets set based on the availability of the
| > pthreads library.  Beeing able to rely on unconditional aio support
| > means we could remove the whole code for plain bdrv_read/bdrv_write
| > in raw-posix.c which is about 300 lines of code and a duplicated code
| > path.  Is there any Posix-ish platform qemu supports that does not
| > have pthreads support?
| > 
| 
| MiniOS.
| I would appreciate if you keep that flag.

You seem to be under the illusion that pthreads implies AIO.

OpenBSD has two flavors of threads libraries (arguably one is not
fit for consumption yet) and neither provide AIO.

This flag is most useful for OpenBSD as well.

Thanks,
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