Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool
authoraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:41:40 +0000 (16:41 +0000)
committeraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:41:40 +0000 (16:41 +0000)
commit3c529d935923a70519557d420db1d5a09a65086a
tree347898a09209ea707e500da513515a72ae80377e
parent8de24106355d25512a8578ac83dab0c7515575b0
Replace posix-aio with custom thread pool

glibc implements posix-aio as a thread pool and imposes a number of limitations.

1) it limits one request per-file descriptor.  we hack around this by dup()'ing
file descriptors which is hideously ugly

2) it's impossible to add new interfaces and we need a vectored read/write
operation to properly support a zero-copy API.

What has been suggested to me by glibc folks, is to implement whatever new
interfaces we want and then it can eventually be proposed for standardization.
This requires that we implement our own posix-aio implementation though.

This patch implements posix-aio using pthreads.  It immediately eliminates the
need for fd pooling.

It performs at least as well as the current posix-aio code (in some
circumstances, even better).

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5996 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
Makefile
Makefile.target
block-raw-posix.c
configure
posix-aio-compat.c [new file with mode: 0644]
posix-aio-compat.h [new file with mode: 0644]