Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
Ok, I understand why you might "offload" read() from <i>disk backed files</i> file descriptors. But why "sendfile"? I thought sendfile is properly async in linux... Unless I'm getting something wrong.<p>"aio_write" -> wasn't the idea of AIO operations to actually be truly async? Maybe it's because it requires XFS. Anyway, I'm confused.