From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Why is O_DSYNC on linux so slow / what's wrong with my SSD? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 04:54:46 -0800 Message-ID: <20131120125446.GA6284@infradead.org> References: <528CA73B.9070604@profihost.ag> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, LKML , matthew@wil.cx To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <528CA73B.9070604@profihost.ag> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:12:43PM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > Can anyone explain to me why O_DSYNC for my app on linux is so slow? Because FreeBSD ignores O_DSYNC on block devices, it never sends a FLUSH to the device.