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-<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfs_aio_pthread</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" title="vfs_aio_pthread"><a name="vfs_aio_pthread.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfs_aio_pthread — implement async I/O in Samba vfs using a pthread pool</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">vfs objects = aio_pthread</code></p></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a name="id266340"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This VFS module is part of the
- <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <code class="literal">aio_pthread</code> VFS module enables asynchronous
- I/O for Samba on platforms which have the pthreads API available,
- without using the Posix AIO interface. Posix AIO can suffer from severe
- limitations. For example, on some Linux versions the
- real-time signals that it uses are broken under heavy load.
- Other systems only allow AIO when special kernel modules are
- loaded or only allow a certain system-wide amount of async
- requests being scheduled. Systems based on glibc (most Linux
- systems) only allow a single outstanding request per file
- descriptor which essentially makes Posix AIO useless on systems
- using the glibc implementation.</p><p>To work around all these limitations, the aio_pthread module
- was written. It uses a pthread pool instead of the
- internal Posix AIO interface to allow read and write calls
- to be process asynchronously. A pthread pool is created
- which expands dynamically by creating new threads as work is
- given to it to a maximum of 100 threads per smbd process.
- To change this limit see the "aio num threads" parameter
- below. New threads are not created if idle threads are
- available when a new read or write request is received,
- the new work is given to an existing idle thread. Threads
- terminate themselves if idle for one second.
- </p><p>
- Note that the smb.conf parameters <code class="literal">aio read size</code>
- and <code class="literal">aio write size</code> must also be set appropriately
- for this module to be active.
- </p><p>This module MUST be listed last in any module stack as
- the Samba VFS pread/pwrite interface is not thread-safe. This
- module makes direct pread and pwrite system calls and does
- NOT call the Samba VFS pread and pwrite interfaces.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="EXAMPLES"><a name="id266856"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>Straight forward use:</p><pre class="programlisting">
- <em class="parameter"><code>[cooldata]</code></em>
- <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#PATH" target="_top">path = /data/ice</a>
- <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#AIOREADSIZE" target="_top">aio read size = 1024</a>
- <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#AIOWRITESIZE" target="_top">aio write size = 1024</a>
- <a class="link" href="smb.conf.5.html#VFSOBJECTS" target="_top">vfs objects = aio_pthread</a>
-</pre></div><div class="refsect1" title="OPTIONS"><a name="id265817"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">aio_pthread:aio num threads = INTEGER</span></dt><dd><p>Limit the maximum number of threads per smbd that
- will be created in the thread pool to service IO requests.
- </p><p>By default this is set to 100.</p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="VERSION"><a name="id265844"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.6.3 of the Samba suite.
- </p></div><div class="refsect1" title="AUTHOR"><a name="id265854"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
- were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
- by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
- to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html>
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