Noticed the same too. It is likely that we are both impacted by the very aggressive default of 1ms for `internal_poll_interval`: https://github.com/ceph/ceph-cm-ansible/pull/308
I guess that might be what Mitogen does (along with other improvements), a faster Ansible strategy [2].
[1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/becf9416736dc911d341...
[2] https://github.com/mitogen-hq/mitogen/blob/master/docs/ansib...