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Subject: AioIoCompletion with io_worker = sync?
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We're seeing IO:AioIoCompletion events on a system with io_worker =3D =
sync.  Tracing through the code, it's not clear to me that it should =
ever hit that wait event if io_worker =3D sync, or does it get hit even =
in the io_worker =3D sync case?=