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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Two questions about stripe_cache_size
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:24:22 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110223092422.230875fa@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin-Ub0PAvdWDQwzqUyvzVDKia5FGGpyK4ip_=Lo@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:13:14 -0800 "Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Neil.  Actually, I think I have one more question...  (Well,
> one question with many faces.)
> 
> Is the stripe cache write-back, or write-through?  If the latter, when
> does it get flushed to disk, exactly?
> 

Write-through.

However I am tempted to make it write-back as filesystems now submit 'flush'
requests which can be used to flush the cache.  I wonder if you would be able
to notice any performance difference...

NeilBrown

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-22 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-22 21:46 Two questions about stripe_cache_size Patrick J. LoPresti
2011-02-22 22:01 ` NeilBrown
2011-02-22 22:10   ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-22 22:13   ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2011-02-22 22:24     ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-02-22 22:26       ` Roberto Spadim
2011-02-22 22:35       ` Patrick J. LoPresti

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