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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dd PATCH: add conv=direct
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:34:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040407123455.0de9ffa9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040407192432.GD2814@hexapodia.org>

Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> wrote:
>
> Would there be any reason to allow O_DIRECT on the read side?

Sure.  It saves CPU, avoids blowing pagecache, just as with O_DIRECT
writes.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-07 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-06 22:03 dd PATCH: add conv=direct Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07  0:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 16:21   ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-07 16:42     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 17:31   ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 18:18     ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 19:24       ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:34         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-04-07 19:47           ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 20:03             ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 20:43               ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 21:00                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-04-07 21:35                 ` Bruce Allen
2004-04-08  6:56                   ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 11:07                     ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 19:32                       ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 19:51                         ` Paul Jarc
2004-04-08 21:34                         ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-08 16:23                     ` Philippe Troin
2004-04-08 20:20                       ` dd patch to remove noctty Paul Eggert
2004-04-08 21:40                         ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-09  0:37             ` dd PATCH: add conv=direct Anton Blanchard
2004-04-09  1:42               ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-04-10 21:28                 ` Jim Meyering
2004-04-07 20:46       ` Paul Eggert
2004-04-07 21:06         ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-07 21:09         ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 19:12     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-04-07 20:14       ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-07 22:02 ` Nathan Straz
2004-04-07 22:09   ` Andy Isaacson
2004-04-08 11:44     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg

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