Oracle Linux: Asynchronous I/O Support on OCFS/OCFS2 and Related Settings: filesystemio_options, disk_asynch_io (Doc ID 432854.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 25, 2024

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Purpose

This article clarify the difference among the concepts and options about Direct I/O and  Asynchronous I/O and filesystemio_options and disk_asynch_io .

Scope

This article will introduce some concepts about I/O on Linux platform, after that, it will focus on the options: filesystemio_options and disk_asynch_io.

The part of introduction of AIO and all the pictures related come from the article  "Boost Application Performance using Asynchronous I/O" authored by M. Tim Jones. As of this document is written (June 7, 2007) no copyright violation of the material is applicable if referenced explicitly.

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