I’m quite interested in this topic but I feel like the article was lacking in substance, like so many of the recent nginx PR pieces. The only sentence that I found of interest is: “Without any modification required, NGINX can use the sendfile system call together with the aio_read system call. Together the calls avoid blocking on disk I/O, leading to outstanding performance.”
I’ve heard linux has poor aio so it’s interesting to see what people do with aio support on platforms where it’s well supported.
I’m quite interested in this topic but I feel like the article was lacking in substance, like so many of the recent nginx PR pieces. The only sentence that I found of interest is: “Without any modification required, NGINX can use the sendfile system call together with the aio_read system call. Together the calls avoid blocking on disk I/O, leading to outstanding performance.”
I’ve heard linux has poor aio so it’s interesting to see what people do with aio support on platforms where it’s well supported.