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+/*
+ * Dedicated thread for virtio-blk I/O processing
+ *
+ * Copyright 2012 IBM, Corp.
+ * Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. and/or its affiliates
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ * Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H
+#define HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H
+
+#include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
+
+typedef struct VirtIOBlockDataPlane VirtIOBlockDataPlane;
+
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_create(VirtIODevice *vdev, VirtIOBlkConf *conf,
+ VirtIOBlockDataPlane **dataplane,
+ Error **errp);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_destroy(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_start(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_stop(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+void virtio_blk_data_plane_drain(VirtIOBlockDataPlane *s);
+
+#endif /* HW_DATAPLANE_VIRTIO_BLK_H */