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From: Dave Chinner <david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org>
To: Linus Torvalds
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Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/13] aio: enabled thread based async fsync
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:59:57 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160120195957.GV6033@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzRo3yztEBBvJ4CMCvVHAo6qEDhTHTc_LGyqmxbcFyNYw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 07:59:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'll have to think about this some more.
> >
> > Any further thoughts on this after a few days worth of pondering?
> 
> Sorry about the delay, with the merge window and me being sick for a
> couple of days I didn't get around to this.
> 
> After thinking it over some more, I guess I'm ok with your approach.
> The table-driven patch makes me a bit happier, and I guess not very
> many people end up ever wanting to do async system calls anyway.
> 
> Are there other users outside of Solace? It would be good to get comments..

I know of quite a few storage/db products that use AIO. The most
recent high profile project that have been reporting issues with AIO
on XFS is http://www.scylladb.com/. That project is architected
around non-blocking AIO for scalability reasons...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david-FqsqvQoI3Ljby3iVrkZq2A@public.gmane.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-20 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-11 22:06 [PATCH 00/13] aio: thread (work queue) based aio and new aio functionality Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:06 ` [PATCH 01/13] signals: distinguish signals sent due to i/o via io_send_sig() Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:06 ` [PATCH 02/13] aio: add aio_get_mm() helper Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:06 ` [PATCH 03/13] aio: for async operations, make the iter argument persistent Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 04/13] signals: add and use aio_get_task() to direct signals sent via io_send_sig() Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 05/13] fs: make do_loop_readv_writev() non-static Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 06/13] aio: add queue_work() based threaded aio support Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 07/13] aio: enabled thread based async fsync Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-12  1:11   ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-12  1:20     ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]       ` <CA+55aFxtvMqHgHmHCcszV_QKQ2BY0wzenmrvc6BYN+tLFxesMA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-12  2:25         ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-12  2:38           ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12  3:37             ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-12  4:03               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12  4:48                 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12 22:50                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
     [not found]                   ` <CA+55aFxCM-xWVR4jC=q2wSk+-WC1Xuf+nZLoud8JwKZopnR_dQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-15 20:21                     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-20  3:59                       ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                         ` <CA+55aFzRo3yztEBBvJ4CMCvVHAo6qEDhTHTc_LGyqmxbcFyNYw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-20  5:02                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-01-20 19:59                           ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2016-01-20 20:29                             ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-20 20:44                               ` Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-20 21:45                                 ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-20 21:56                                   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-23  4:24                                     ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-23  4:50                                       ` Benjamin LaHaise
     [not found]                                         ` <20160123045024.GA32488-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-23 22:22                                           ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-20 23:07                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-23  4:39                                     ` Dave Chinner
2016-03-14 17:17                                       ` aio openat " Benjamin LaHaise
2016-03-20  1:20                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-20  1:26                                           ` Al Viro
     [not found]                                             ` <20160320012610.GX17997-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2016-03-20  1:45                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-20  1:55                                                 ` Al Viro
2016-03-20  2:03                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                               ` <CA+55aFx4PzugV+wOKRqMEwo8XJ1QxP8r+s-mvn6H064FROnKdQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2016-01-20 21:57                                 ` Dave Chinner
2016-01-22 15:41                         ` Andres Freund
2016-01-12 22:59                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-14  9:19       ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-01-12  1:30     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-22 15:31     ` Andres Freund
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 08/13] aio: add support for aio poll via aio thread helper Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 09/13] aio: add support for async openat() Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-12  0:22   ` Linus Torvalds
2016-01-12  1:17     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-12  1:45     ` Chris Mason
2016-01-12  9:53     ` Ingo Molnar
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 10/13] aio: add async unlinkat functionality Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 11/13] mm: enable __do_page_cache_readahead() to include present pages Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:07 ` [PATCH 12/13] aio: add support for aio readahead Benjamin LaHaise
2016-01-11 22:08 ` [PATCH 13/13] aio: add support for aio renameat operation Benjamin LaHaise

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