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23.2. Userspace Access
Always take care to use properly aligned and sized I/O. This is especially important for Direct I/O access. Direct I/O should be aligned on a
logical_block_size
boundary, and in multiples of the logical_block_size
.
With native 4K devices (i.e.
logical_block_size
is 4K) it is now critical that applications perform direct I/O in multiples of the device's logical_block_size
. This means that applications will fail with native 4k devices that perform 512-byte aligned I/O rather than 4k-aligned I/O.
To avoid this, an application should consult the I/O parameters of a device to ensure it is using the proper I/O alignment and size. As mentioned earlier, I/O parameters are exposed through the both
sysfs
and block device ioctl
interfaces.
For more details, refer to
man libblkid
. This man
page is provided by the libblkid-devel
package.
sysfs Interface
- /sys/block/
disk
/alignment_offset - /sys/block/
disk
/partition
/alignment_offset - /sys/block/
disk
/queue/physical_block_size - /sys/block/
disk
/queue/logical_block_size - /sys/block/
disk
/queue/minimum_io_size - /sys/block/
disk
/queue/optimal_io_size
The kernel will still export these
sysfs
attributes for "legacy" devices that do not provide I/O parameters information, for example:
Example 23.1. sysfs
interface
alignment_offset: 0 physical_block_size: 512 logical_block_size: 512 minimum_io_size: 512 optimal_io_size: 0