Re: linux io_submit syscall duration

Jens Axboe
2006-11-15T07:44:40Z

On Wed, Nov 15 2006, Raz Ben-Jehuda(caro) wrote:
> Bnejamin hello.
>
> My name is raz and i have encountered a problem with io_submit.
> The maximum duration of a single io_submit operation when
> heavily stressing the system with large number of big (1MB) ios,
> reaches several hundereds ms.
>
> I have been profiling it and it seems that the problem is the
> file->f_op->aio_read operation,
> a call that is made in fs/aio.c when coming from:
> sys_io_submit -->
> io_submit_one -->
> aio_run_iocb -->
> *retry
>
>
> The test is initiating several hundered 1MB IOs over a single block device.
>
> I understand that the assumption made was aio_read is asynchronous and no
> delay will occure, but isn't possible to do it in the workqueue context ?

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