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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Greg Sullivan <greg.sullivan@sullivang.net>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "Invalidate" not functional on Windows?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:40:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502A8D8E.70200@cran.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201208141934.00289.Martin@lichtvoll.de>

On 14/08/2012 18:33, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> invalidate discards the buffer cache before the job group is started.
> During the job execution caches will be in use anyway. Unless using
> direct I/O (direct=1). Don´t know whether direct I/O will work with
> "windowsaio" I/O engine or in any other way on Windows.

On Windows (windowsaio) use sync=1 to disable buffering of writes. For 
reads, use direct=1.

-- 
Bruce Cran


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2012-08-14  4:57 ` "Invalidate" not functional on Windows? Greg Sullivan
2012-08-14 13:06   ` Jens Axboe
2012-08-14 17:33     ` Martin Steigerwald
2012-08-14 17:40       ` Bruce Cran [this message]
2012-08-14 17:50       ` Martin Steigerwald

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