Re: [Xen-devel] reasons/requirements for some of patches/linux-2.6.16.29/*

["Andrew Warfield" <andrew.warfield@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Could anyone give a description (and reason it is needed for Xen, if that's
> > not obvious from the description) for each of
> >
> > blktap-aio-16_03_06.patch
>
> Not sure. Andrew Warfield or Julian Chesterfield probably will know. I would
> guess it's probably a backport of AIO changes from a more recent kernel, but
> I'm not certain about that.
The patch allows polling of aio and non-aio file descriptors through a
single call.  It's a stopgap that was sent to the aio devel list and
is there in anticipation of a solution for mixed polling in linux.

The old approach was to have a separate thread to call aio_getevents
and signal that to the main poll loop through a pipe -- it's no less
ugly, but keeps changes to user space at a cost in performance.

a.

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