[Samba] samba 3.5.6 and AIO on Linux

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 11:13:32AM +0200, Ofer H wrote:
> I have been trying to enable AIO on ARMv5 Samba built with kernel headers
> 2.6.31.8, the configure indicated that AIO is supported via kernel headers
> and all went smooth (regarding the build process).
> 
> Once I added the smb.conf 'aio write size=1' and tried to perform a file
> copy to the Samba share I noticed that 32K of the file (of the 1GB file)
> have been copied to the share but the file copy stalled and did not finish.
> I had to restart Samba to see that share since it was stuck, I have
> experienced the same fenomenon with XPsp2 and W7 clients.
> 
> I also noticed that the Samba daemon that was forked as root (not as nobody
> as it usually does) and stayed blocked on some FUTEX taken.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that AIO actually works on Linux, I have seen xBSD
> related mail claiming that it does work and brings nice performance
> improvement.

Yes, I've used that many times. To be honest, this smells
like a problem in glibc on your system. You might want to
try

vfs objects = aio_fork

With best regards,

Volker Lendecke

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