Async I/O via iocp
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When AIO is available then the NVMe NVM Commands for read and write are sent over the Windows IOCP interface. Doing so improves command-throughput at higher queue-depths when compared to sending the command via the NVMe driver ioctl().
One can explicitly tell xNVMe to utilize iocp
for async I/O by
encoding it in the device identifier, like so:
xnvme_io_async read \\.\PhysicalDrive0 --slba 0x0 --qdepth 1 --async iocp
Yielding the output:
# Allocating and filling buf of nbytes: 512
# Initializing queue and setting default callback function and arguments
# Read uri: '\\.\PhysicalDrive0', qd: 1
xnvme_lba_range:
slba: 0x0000000000000000
elba: 0x0000000000000000
naddrs: 1
nbytes: 512
attr: { is_zones: 0, is_valid: 1}
wall-clock: {elapsed: 0.0002, mib: 0.00, mib_sec: 2.08}
# cb_args: {submitted: 1, completed: 1, ecount: 0}