Regular filesystem aio reads/writes aren't async at the
moment in the vanilla 2.5 tree, so that would be expected, but
you say you are seeing this with O_DIRECT as well ...
What kind of i/o sizes and loads are involved when you observe
this with O_DIRECT AIO ? Which filesystem are you using ?
Regards
Suparna
-- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Labs, India
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