The patch to use host AIO support that I submitted early after 2.6.13 exposed
some problems in the block driver. I have fixes for these, but am not
comfortable putting them into 2.6.14 at this late date. So, this patch reverts
the use of host AIO.
I will resubmit the original patch, plus fixes to the driver after 2.6.14
in order to get a reasonable amount of testing before they're exposed to
the general public.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds AIO support to the ubd driver.
The driver breaks a struct request into IO requests to the host, based on the
hardware segments in the request and on any COW blocks covered by the request.
The ubd IO thread is gone, since there is now an equivalent thread in the AIO
module.
There is provision for multiple outstanding requests now. Requests aren't
retired until all pieces of it have been completed. The AIO requests have a
shared count, which is decremented as IO operations come in until it reaches
0. This can be possibly moved to the request struct - haven't looked at this
yet.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch makes UML use host AIO support when it (and
/usr/include/linux/aio_abi.h) are present. This is only the support, with no
consumers - a consumer is coming in the next patch.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
