public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:59:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010705155942.P17051@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B3C4CB4.6B3D2B2F@kegel.com> <E15Fuul-0008SJ-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15Fuul-0008SJ-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:50:15AM +0100

On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 10:50:15AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > the boss say "If Linux makes Sybase go through the page cache on
> > reads, maybe we'll just have to switch to Solaris.  That's
> > a serious performance problem."
> 
> Thats something you'd have to benchmark. It depends on a very large number
> of factors including whether the database uses mmap, the average I/O size
> and the like

correct, here the benchmarks:

	http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week17/1175.html
        http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week17/att-1175/01-directio.png

of course the huge improvement is also because of broken VM in the
buffered-io case.

Andrea

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-07-05 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-29  9:39 O_DIRECT please; Sybase 12.5 Dan Kegel
2001-06-29  9:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-29 10:16   ` Dan Kegel
2001-06-29 12:49     ` Mike Harrold
2001-07-05 13:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-06-29 15:23 ` Steve Lord
2001-07-03  9:42 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-03 15:10   ` Daryll Strauss
2001-07-03 15:48     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-07-05 13:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-05 14:28   ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-05 14:37     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-05 15:06       ` Andrew Morton
2001-07-06  0:25         ` Keith Owens
     [not found] <3B3C4CB4.6B3D2B2F@kegel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-06-29 10:42 ` Andi Kleen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20010705155942.P17051@athlon.random \
    --to=andrea@suse.de \
    --cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
    --cc=dank@kegel.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox