Art of Distributed System Architecture Design

Jul 28, 2015 · Fundamentals

Introduction to Linux Asynchronous I/O (AIO) and Its API

This article explains Linux asynchronous I/O (AIO), compares it with synchronous and non‑blocking I/O models, describes the underlying aiocb structure, and provides detailed examples of the AIO API functions such as aio_read, aio_write, aio_error, aio_return, aio_suspend, aio_cancel and lio_listio.