Re: [GIT PULL] aio poll fixes for 5.16-rc5

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 07:45:39PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> distributions are compiling them with AIO enabled, since you can get
> better performance with AIO.  Fio also uses AIO, and many fio recipes
> that are trying to benchmark file systems or block devices use
> AIO/DIO.

As does qemu and many commercial databases.