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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: performance of O_DIRECT on md/lvm
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:41:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020121154125.A8292@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201181743.g0IHhO226012@street-vision.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <3C48607C.35D3DDFF@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20020120201603.L21279@athlon.random.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <p734rlg90ga.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> <20020121021224.O21279@athlon.random> <20020121003552.A12850@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020121003552.A12850@redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:35:52AM -0500

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:35:52AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:12:24AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > yes, in short the API to allow the userspace to keep the I/O pipeline
> > full with a ring of user buffers is not available at the moment.
> 
> See http://www.kvack.org/~blah/aio/ .  Seems to work pretty nicely 
> for raw io.

of course async-io API is the right fix to keep the I/O pipeline always
full. Thanks for pointing it out.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-21 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200201181743.g0IHhO226012@street-vision.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <3C48607C.35D3DDFF@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found]   ` <20020120201603.L21279@athlon.random.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-01-20 21:28     ` performance of O_DIRECT on md/lvm Andi Kleen
2002-01-20 21:42       ` arjan
2002-01-21  1:12       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-21  5:35         ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-01-21 14:41           ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
     [not found] <p734rlg90ga.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <m16SPj2-000OVeC@amadeus.home.nl.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-01-20 22:11   ` Andi Kleen
2002-01-18 17:43 Justin Cormack
2002-01-18 17:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-01-20 19:16   ` Andrea Arcangeli

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