oracle linux performance gdb IO wait events

Recently I was discussing some IO related waits with some friends. The wait I was discussing was ‘kfk: async disk IO’. This wait was always visible in Oracle version 11.2.0.1 and seems to be gone in version 11.2.0.2 and above. Here is the result of some investigation into that.

First: the wait is not gone with version 11.2.0.2 and above, which is very simple to prove (this is a database version 11.2.0.3):