From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmap vs. O_DIRECT
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:19:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41939F21.2040008@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100193219.5358.25.camel@localhost>
Robert Love wrote:
>The closest you can come to normal I/O without the page cache is by
>doing posix_fadvise() to prune your cache pages after you touch them.
>
>
Or you can use aio with O_DIRECT.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-11 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-10 0:05 mmap vs. O_DIRECT Bill Davidsen
2004-11-10 21:13 ` Robert Love
2004-11-11 14:50 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-11 15:41 ` Robert Love
2004-11-11 17:13 ` Robert Love
2004-11-11 17:19 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2004-11-11 17:22 ` Robert Love
2004-11-10 22:19 ` Alan Cox
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