Comparative analysis of asynchronous I/O in multithreaded UNIX

H. Chuck Yoo

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199609)26:9<987::AID-SPE42>3.0.CO;2-3

Comparative analysis of asynchronous I/O in multithreaded UNIX

H. Chuck Yoo^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

I/O operations in UNIX are inherently synchronous. The need for asynchronous I/O comes first from multithreaded applications where thrads cannot block for I/O, and second from the fact that asynchronous I/O has much less overhead than synchronous I/O. There are two main approaches to accomplishing asynchronous I/O in UNIX. We compare the two approaches in design and implementation, and report the results of extensive experiments to measure the performance differences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	987-997
Number of pages	11
Journal	Software - Practice and Experience
Volume	26
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199609)26:9<987::AID-SPE42>3.0.CO;2-3
Publication status	Published - 1996 Sept

Keywords

Asynchronous I/O
Blocking I/O
DDI/DKI
Multithreading
Threads
UNIX

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