From: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
To: David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
Cc: chromi@cyberspace.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scsi vs ide performance on fsync's
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:46:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010306124659.B2244@xi.linuxpower.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AA51AE7.29FAC080@uni-mb.si>
In-Reply-To: <3AA51AE7.29FAC080@uni-mb.si>; from david.balazic@uni-mb.si on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:14:15PM +0100
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:14:15PM +0100, David Balazic wrote:
[snip]
> Hardware Level caching is only good for OSes which have broken
> drivers and broken caching (like plain old DOS).
>
> Linux does a good job in caching and cache control at software
> level.
Read caching, yes. But for writes, the drive can often do a lot more
optimization because of it's synchronous operation with the platter and
greater knowledge of internal disk geometry.
What would be useful, as Alan said, is a barrier operation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-06 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-06 17:14 scsi vs ide performance on fsync's David Balazic
2001-03-06 17:46 ` Gregory Maxwell [this message]
2001-03-06 18:23 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-06 23:27 ` Mark Hahn
[not found] <1epyyz1.etswlv1kmicnqM%smurf@noris.de>
2001-03-09 6:59 ` Matthias Urlichs
2001-03-09 11:51 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-09 14:26 ` Matthias Urlichs
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2001-03-07 12:47 David Balazic
2001-03-06 19:42 David Balazic
2001-03-06 20:37 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-07 13:51 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-07 14:12 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-07 15:05 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-07 18:51 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-07 19:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-07 20:15 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-07 20:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-07 20:59 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-08 15:45 ` Chris Mason
2001-03-06 5:27 Douglas Gilbert
2001-03-06 5:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-06 7:12 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-06 18:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-07 13:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-07 14:13 ` Jens Axboe
2001-03-12 18:50 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 13:50 ` Mike Black
2001-03-06 16:02 ` Jeremy Hansen
2001-03-07 18:27 ` Jeremy Hansen
2001-03-07 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-08 11:06 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-03-06 16:57 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-06 6:43 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-06 13:03 ` dean gaudet
2001-03-06 13:15 ` dean gaudet
2001-03-06 13:45 ` Jonathan Morton
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0103021033190.6176-200000@srv2.ecropolis.com>
[not found] ` <054201c0a33d$55ee5870$e1de11cc@csihq.com>
2001-03-04 20:10 ` Douglas Gilbert
2001-03-04 21:28 ` Ishikawa
2001-03-06 0:11 ` Douglas Gilbert
2001-03-02 17:42 Jeremy Hansen
2001-03-02 18:39 ` Steve Lord
2001-03-02 19:17 ` Chris Mason
2001-03-02 19:25 ` Steve Lord
2001-03-02 19:27 ` Jeremy Hansen
2001-03-02 19:38 ` Chris Mason
2001-03-02 19:41 ` Steve Lord
2001-03-05 13:23 ` Andi Kleen
2001-03-02 19:25 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-03 1:55 ` Dan Hollis
2001-03-02 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-06 2:13 ` Jeremy Hansen
2001-03-06 2:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-06 3:30 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-06 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-06 7:03 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-06 8:24 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-06 12:22 ` Rik van Riel
2001-03-06 14:08 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-07 16:50 ` Pavel Machek
2001-03-06 19:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-07 5:25 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-03-07 6:58 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-09 11:39 ` Jonathan Morton
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