On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:07:38PM +0000, paul_kon...@dell.com wrote: > > I am playing with oracle XE on 6.0_RC2 and ktrace tells me that this > > requires Linux aio_* system calls. > > [...] > > Is there any advantage to using aio rather than regular I/O from > threads? I've used both (aio only a little) and found aio rather > hard to use while multithreading with conventional thread-blocking > I/O seems easy and intuitive.
Yes. There's a reason Linux has real aio now and not just aio-done-with-threads like they used to: scaling. Threads are fairly expensive. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
