Re: Higher than expected disk write(2) latency

[Martin Sustrik]

> I thought you were doing I/O to the underlying block device.  If so,
> there's no need to open with O_SYNC.  You do, however, need to open the
> device with O_DIRECT and align your buffers (and buffer lengths)
> properly.

Yes, we are using O_DIRECT + aligning the buffers. However, usign O_SYNC 
vs. O_ASYNC seems to matter (different latency). Maybe this is because 
we are using librt?

> Which AIO interface are you using, libaio or librt?  How many I/Os are
> you queueing to the device?  You may want to take a look at aio-stress.c
> as a way to test your device (this uses libaio, the in-kernel AIO
> interface).

We are using librt, queueing 10240 writes, 512 bytes each.

We'll retry with libaio. Thanks for advice.

Martin
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