[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 04/20] Make QEMUFile buf expandable, and introduce qemu_realloc_buffer() and qemu_clear_buffer().

[Avi Kivity]

On 04/21/2010 08:57 AM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
Currently buf size is fixed at 32KB.  It would be useful if it could
be flexible.
   

Why is this needed?  The real buffering is in the kernel anyways; this 
is only used to reduce the number of write() syscalls.

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