qemu/qemu-aio.h
aliguori a76bab4952 Refactor AIO to allow multiple AIO implementations
This patch refactors the AIO layer to allow multiple AIO implementations.  It's
only possible because of the recent signalfd() patch.  

Right now, the AIO infrastructure is pretty specific to the block raw backend.
For other block devices to implement AIO, the qemu_aio_wait function must
support registration.  This patch introduces a new function,
qemu_aio_set_fd_handler, which can be used to register a file descriptor to be
called back.  qemu_aio_wait() now polls a set of file descriptors registered
with this function until one becomes readable or writable.

This patch should allow the implementation of alternative AIO backends (via a
thread pool or linux-aio) and AIO backends in non-traditional block devices
(like NBD).

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



git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5297 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
2008-09-22 19:17:18 +00:00

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/*
* QEMU aio implementation
*
* Copyright IBM, Corp. 2008
*
* Authors:
* Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
*
* This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
* the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
*
*/
#ifndef QEMU_AIO_H
#define QEMU_AIO_H
#include "qemu-common.h"
#include "qemu-char.h"
/* Returns 1 if there are still outstanding AIO requests; 0 otherwise */
typedef int (AioFlushHandler)(void *opaque);
/* Flush any pending AIO operation. This function will block until all
* outstanding AIO operations have been completed or cancelled. */
void qemu_aio_flush(void);
/* Wait for a single AIO completion to occur. This function will until a
* single AIO opeartion has completed. It is intended to be used as a looping
* primative when simulating synchronous IO based on asynchronous IO. */
void qemu_aio_wait(void);
/* Register a file descriptor and associated callbacks. Behaves very similarly
* to qemu_set_fd_handler2. Unlike qemu_set_fd_handler2, these callbacks will
* be invoked when using either qemu_aio_wait() or qemu_aio_flush().
*
* Code that invokes AIO completion functions should rely on this function
* instead of qemu_set_fd_handler[2].
*/
int qemu_aio_set_fd_handler(int fd,
IOHandler *io_read,
IOHandler *io_write,
AioFlushHandler *io_flush,
void *opaque);
#endif