Re: [PATCHSET v5 0/12] Add support for async buffered reads

Andres Freund
2020-06-05T22:36:39Z

Hi,

On 2020-06-05 15:30:44 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-06-05 15:21:34 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >> I can reproduce this, and I see what it is. I'll send out a patch soonish.
> > >
> > > Thinko, can you try with this on top?
> >
> > Sorry that was incomplete, please use this one!
>
> That seems to fix it! Yay.
>
>
> Bulk buffered reads somehow don't quite seem to be performing that well
> though, looking into it. Could be on the pg side too.

While looking into that, I played with setting
/sys/<dev>/queue/read_ahead_kb to 0 and noticed that seems to result in
all/most IO done in workers. Is that to be expected?

Greetings,

Andres Freund