From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Milosz Tanski <milosz@adfin.com>
Cc: Dong Yuan <yuandong1222@gmail.com>,
Haomai Wang <haomaiwang@gmail.com>, Sage Weil <sweil@redhat.com>,
"ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Somnath Roy <Somnath.Roy@sandisk.com>,
Allen Samuels <Allen.Samuels@sandisk.com>,
Kasper Dieter <dieter.kasper@ts.fujitsu.com>,
PVonStamwitz@us.fujitsu.com, "Shu, Xinxin" <xinxin.shu@intel.com>,
Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>,
xiaoxi.chen@intel.com, "Wang, Zhiqiang" <zhiqiang.wang@intel.com>,
jianpeng.ma@intel.com, gdror@mellanox.com, vuhuong@mellanox.com,
Mark Nelson <mark.nelson@inktank.com>
Subject: Re: Weekly performance meeting
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 06:02:39 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140926130239.GA4577@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANP1eJGTx6vwBgnKZjHmwwwDbYOTs-Q6sUjYAt7ei1YqsDdeaQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:58:56AM -0400, Milosz Tanski wrote:
> First, I have recently submitted a series of patches to kernel to add
> a new preadv2 syscall that lets you do a "fast read" out of the page
> cache the point being that you can skip the whole disk IO queue in
> user space in the cases it's already cached (thus reducing the
> latency). Obviously this doesn't do much for writes (yet, Christoph
> Heldwig is working on that). Samba expressed an interest using these
> new syscalls as well.
We could also implement it for writes, but if would be a bit more
complicated. If there is a compelling use case it might be worth
exploring.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-26 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-25 18:27 Weekly performance meeting Sage Weil
2014-09-25 19:03 ` Matt W. Benjamin
2014-09-25 21:15 ` Vu Pham
2014-09-26 6:42 ` Dror Goldenberg
2014-09-26 1:50 ` Paul Von-Stamwitz
2014-09-26 2:27 ` Haomai Wang
2014-09-26 2:45 ` Haomai Wang
2014-09-26 6:30 ` Dong Yuan
2014-09-26 6:40 ` Somnath Roy
2014-09-26 7:20 ` Dong Yuan
2014-09-26 12:58 ` Milosz Tanski
2014-09-26 13:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-09-26 15:37 ` Sage Weil
2014-09-26 15:57 ` Mark Nelson
2014-09-26 2:47 ` Guang Yang
2014-09-26 13:12 ` Mark Nelson
2014-09-27 3:05 ` Guang Yang
2014-09-26 6:40 ` Zhang, Jian
2014-09-26 7:25 ` Loic Dachary
2014-09-26 8:37 ` Zhang, Jian
2014-09-26 8:56 ` Loic Dachary
[not found] ` <20140925192728.GA22139@oder.mch.fsc.net>
2014-09-25 19:30 ` Mark Nelson
2014-09-25 19:31 ` Mark Nelson
2014-09-25 19:41 ` Sage Weil
2014-09-25 20:20 ` Somnath Roy
2014-10-01 9:30 ` Andreas Bluemle
[not found] <549524118.380.1411702754627.JavaMail.root@thunderbeast.private.linuxbox.com>
2014-09-26 3:39 ` Matt W. Benjamin
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