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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:05:32 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <480DFEBC.1020504@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <480DFBD9.4030802@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> If I submit sequential O_DIRECT reads with aio_read(), will they enter
>> the device read queue in the same order, and reach the disk in that
>> order (allowing for reordering when worthwhile by the elevator)?
>>   
>
> There's no guarantee that any sort of order will be preserved by AIO 
> requests.  The same is true with writes.  This is what fdsync is for, 
> to guarantee ordering.

I believe he'd like a hint to get good scheduling, not a guarantee.  
With a thread pool if the threads are scheduled out of order, so are 
your requests.  If the elevator doesn't plug the queue, the first few 
requests may not be optimally sorted.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17 19:26 [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations Anthony Liguori
2008-04-17 19:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] Split out posix-aio code Anthony Liguori
2008-04-17 19:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] Implement linux-aio backend Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 15:09   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-18 15:18     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 17:46       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-04-17 19:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] Refactor AIO interface to allow other AIO implementations Daniel P. Berrange
2008-04-17 19:41   ` [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-04-17 20:00     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-04-17 20:05       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 12:43       ` Re: [kvm-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 15:23         ` Anthony Liguori
2008-04-18 16:22           ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-04-18 16:32           ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-20 15:49             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-20 18:43               ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-20 23:39                 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-21  6:39                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-21 12:10                     ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22  8:10                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 14:28                         ` [kvm-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22 14:53                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-04-22 15:05                             ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-04-22 15:23                               ` [kvm-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22 15:12                             ` Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22 15:03                           ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-04-22 15:36                             ` [kvm-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-04-22 15:47                         ` [Qemu-devel] " Javier Guerra
2008-04-21  0:31                 ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2008-04-21  6:41                   ` Avi Kivity

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