Re: [PATCH 1/2] aio: add vectored I/O support

[Joel Becker]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:18:45AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> It is a huge performance win, at least on the 2.4-based RHEL kernel. 
> Large reads (~256K) using 4K iocbs are very slow on a large RAID, while 
> after I coded a similar patch I got a substantial speedup.

	I'd think we should fix the submission path instead.  Why create
iovs _and_ iocbs when we only need to create one?  And even if we
decided aio_readv() was still nice to keep, we'd want to fix this
inefficiency in io_submit().

Joel

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