Re: Approaches to making io_submit not block

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 04:03:42PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> I have often wondered if this is actually the case ? I created
> my own glibc with a patches AIO that removed this restriction
> (thus had multiple outstanding threads on a single fd). In testing
> I saw a dramatic increase in performance (2x speedup) but then
> testing with use in actual code (Samba smbd) it made the client
> throughput *worse*. I never got to the bottom of this and so
> didn't submit my fixes to glibc.
> 
> Any ideas if this is still the case ? Or comments on why glibc
> insists on only one outstanding request per fd ? Is this really
> needed for kernel performance ?

At least for writes you'll simply have multiple requests blocking on
i_mutex.

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