From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:32:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-93543474513000@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-sound-93541443318803@msgid-missing>
> I'm afraid, if we want that Linux will be a good multimedia OS, this is a
> _STRONGLY_NEEDED_ feature.
>
> The user wants to playback his video/audio from disk, and still be able
> to launch his apps, without waiting 10 secs for loading a simple xterm.
>
> The SCT's raw-io patches are nice, but not very suitable in a general purpose
> multimedia enviroment, since you can't tell to the user to store his videos on a
> raw partition.
Stephens patches are basis of raw I/O on files in a filesystem too.
However what you are saying and raw-io don't neccessarily tally. You are
actually saying "there is a bug in the current page cache handling for
this kind of operation". Far better therefore to fix the heuristic used.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-08-23 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-08-23 13:20 Streaming disk I/O kills file buffering and makes Linux unusable Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 17:06 ` Peter Monta
1999-08-23 17:25 ` Linus Torvalds
1999-08-23 17:42 ` Peter Monta
1999-08-23 18:06 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 18:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
1999-08-23 18:39 ` Chuck Lever
1999-08-23 19:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-08-23 20:20 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 20:50 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 20:51 ` Benno Senoner
1999-08-23 21:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
1999-08-24 0:48 ` Dave Mielke
1999-08-24 7:37 ` Gerard Roudier
1999-08-24 7:56 ` Gerard Roudier
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