From: Christopher Smith <x@xman.org>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>,
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-aio@kvack.org, Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: regarding generic AIO, async syscalls precedent + some benchmarks by lighttpd
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:46:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C6D2C1.5010103@xman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702041548480.18633@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Yes, that is some very interesting data IMO. I did not bench the GUASI
> (userspace async thread library) against AIO, but those numbers show that a
> *userspace* async syscall wrapper interface performs in the ballpark of AIO.
> This leads to some hope about the ability to effectively deploy the kernel
> generic async AIO (being it fibril or kthreads based) as low-impact async
> provider for basically anything.
>
SGI's kaio patch to linux kind of went that route (using kthreads) for
non-SCSI async IO. It wasn't a bad way to go, but at least for
disk-based access they achieved much better results when they could go
right to the hardware.
--Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-05 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-04 22:55 bert hubert
2007-02-05 0:15 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-02-05 6:46 ` Christopher Smith [this message]
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