Sample aio-stress results (Streaming iocbs) ----------------------------------------- Filesystem: ext3 File size: 1GB File system block size: 4KB IO Size Buff/DIO R/W Ran/Seq fsaio? Throughput (KB) (MB/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.6.2 + fsaio 4 B R R Y 2.47 8 B R R Y 3.58 16 B R R Y 7.01 32 B R R Y 12.32 64 B R R Y 21.39 4 B W R Y 1.63 8 B W R Y 3.12 16 B W R Y 5.81 32 B W R Y 10.16 64 B W R Y 16.18 2.6.2 vanilla 4 B R R N 1.08 8 B R R N 1.75 16 B R R N 2.64 32 B R R N 4.71 64 B R R N 8.27 4 B W R N 0.68 8 B W R N 1.33 16 B W R N 2.56 32 B W R N 4.72 64 B W R N 8.23 4 D R R N 1.72 8 D R R N 3.34 16 D R R N 6.14 32 D R R N 10.89 64 D R R N 17.69 4 D W R N 1.62 8 D W R N 3.12 16 D W R N 5.85 32 D W R N 10.27 64 D W R N 16.72 2.6.2 + lazy-readahead 4 B R R N 1.05 8 B R R N 1.70 16 B R R N 3.11 32 B R R N 5.66 64 B R R N 9.82