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

[Anthony Liguori]

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> Obviously I would prefer if threads remained optional too, but let's
> just focus on AIO for the moment: as Todd pointed out OpenBSD doesn't
> currently provide AIO and also some small libc, like newlib, do not have
> AIO either.
>   
CONFIG_AIO is a misnomer.  It no longer has anything to do with posix-aio.

It's just a standard read/write IO with a thread pool.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori