On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 04:01:45PM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-06-10 at 19:19 +0530, Aarushi Mehta wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Aarushi Mehta <mehta.aaru20@gmail.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  blockdev.c | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
> > index 3f44b891eb..a2a5b32604 100644
> > --- a/blockdev.c
> > +++ b/blockdev.c
> > @@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ static void extract_common_blockdev_options(QemuOpts *opts, int *bdrv_flags,
> >          if ((aio = qemu_opt_get(opts, "aio")) != NULL) {
> >              if (!strcmp(aio, "native")) {
> >                  *bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_NATIVE_AIO;
> > +            } else if (!strcmp(aio, "io_uring")) {
> > +                *bdrv_flags |= BDRV_O_IO_URING;
> >              } else if (!strcmp(aio, "threads")) {
> >                  /* this is the default */
> >              } else {
> > @@ -4579,7 +4581,7 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_common_drive_opts = {
> >          },{
> >              .name = "aio",
> >              .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
> > -            .help = "host AIO implementation (threads, native)",
> > +            .help = "host AIO implementation (threads, native, io_uring)",
> >          },{
> >              .name = BDRV_OPT_CACHE_WB,
> >              .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
> 
> Nitpick: Maybe we should rename the native to libaio (accept both but give an deprication warning)?

"libaio" is a clearer name but I'm afraid changing it or introducing a
new name is not worth it with so many users, command-lines, scripts, and
management tools that know about "native".  Having two names that mean
the same thing might cause confusion.

Let's leave it as is.

Stefan