On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:35:37AM +0200, Justus Winter wrote: > Quoting Richard Braun (2014-05-29 19:12:13) > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 07:04:48PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > But precisely: once the only thread gets a data_request, it'll call > > > pager_read_page, which will typically call store_read, which will wait > > > on the eventual I/O, and no other request will be processed during that > > > time, and thus not pipelining the I/O requests. > > > > Right, I assumed the store interface wasn't synchronous... > > So we want a fixed number of pager threads?
Let's see if a single thread is actually that bad: what other request could actually be processed while a paging thread is waiting for I/O completion ? -- Richard Braun
