Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2020 08:51:10 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] readfile(2): a new syscall to make open/read/close faster |
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Hi!
> > At first, I thought that the proposed system call is capable of > > reading *multiple* small files using a single system call - which > > would help increase HDD/SSD queue utilization and increase IOPS (I/O > > operations per second) - but that isn't the case and the proposed > > system call can read just a single file. > > If you want to do this for multple files, use io_ring, that's what it > was designed for. I think Jens was going to be adding support for the > open/read/close pattern to it as well, after some other more pressing > features/fixes were finished.
What about... just using io_uring for single file, too? I'm pretty sure it can be wrapped in a library that is simple to use, avoiding need for new syscall. Pavel
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