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Drakosha
Drakosha

Reputation: 12165

/proc/sys/fs/aio-nr is never higher than 1024 (AIO on linux)

I'm trying to use async io on linux. As far as i know there're 3 options:

I'm using the last option, and i see, that in my unit test that runs a lot of async io requests in multiple threads, /proc/sys/fs/aio-nr is never higher than 1024. I wonder where lays such limitation.

I've set /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr to 16M, so it's not an issue.

A related question (also mine) aio_write on linux with rtkaio is sometimes long

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4602

Answers (1)

Drakosha
Drakosha

Reputation: 12165

There's a system call named "io_setup". In librtkaio this call is receiving 1024 as an argument. This, leads to the constant 1024 as i described and hurts performance if there're more than 1024 ios in parallel. Note that 1024 is hardcoded.

Only calling lio_listio in blocking mode will allow you to raise this 1024 bar.

Upvotes: 1

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