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Re: cvs commit: src/sys/platform/vkernel/conf files src/sys/platform/vkernel/i386 exception.c src/sys/platform/vkernel/include cothread.h md_var.h src/sys/platform/vkernel/platform cothread.c machintr.c src/sys/dev/virtual/disk vdisk.c


From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:23:37 +0100

Matthew Dillon wrote:
  * Asynchronize the virtual disk (vkd).   VKD now queues I/O to a cothread
    which runs it and then generates a signal to the vkernel's cpu 0 to run
    the virtual device's 'interrupt' function.

Of course real asynchronous IO would be even better. We should really improve async IO support and make it available per default.


cheers
  simon

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