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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@exanet.com>
Cc: Yasushi Saito <ysaito@hpl.hp.com>,
	linux-aio@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	suparna@in.ibm.com, Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2]  aio: add vectored I/O support
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 06:37:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041016053721.GD17142@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4170AF35.7030806@exanet.com>

On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 07:18:45AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> It is a huge performance win, at least on the 2.4-based RHEL kernel. 
> Large reads (~256K) using 4K iocbs are very slow on a large RAID, while 
> after I coded a similar patch I got a substantial speedup.

	I'd think we should fix the submission path instead.  Why create
iovs _and_ iocbs when we only need to create one?  And even if we
decided aio_readv() was still nice to keep, we'd want to fix this
inefficiency in io_submit().

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-16  5:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-14 20:10 [PATCH 1/2] aio: add vectored I/O support Yasushi Saito
2004-10-16  3:13 ` Joel Becker
2004-10-16  5:18   ` Avi Kivity
2004-10-16  5:37     ` Joel Becker [this message]
2004-10-16  8:43       ` Avi Kivity
2004-10-16 16:28         ` Joel Becker
2004-10-16 17:29           ` Avi Kivity
2004-10-17  0:14             ` Joel Becker
2004-10-17  6:25               ` Avi Kivity
2004-10-16 12:05       ` William Lee Irwin III

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