Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] introduce virtio net dataplane

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 21/02/2013 22:07, mdroth ha scritto:
>> > 
>> > 100% agree.  In particular hw/dataplane/event-poll.c should be the first
>> > to go away, but AioContext provides the functionality that Ping Fan
>> > needs.  But hw/dataplane/vring.c will probably be here for a longer
> Has there been any discussion around introducing something similar to
> AioContexts for fd handlers? This would avoid the dataplane-specific hooks
> needed for NetClients in this series.

AioContext can include file descriptors on POSIX systems (used for NBD
and other network backends), see aio_set_fd_handler.

Paolo