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From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver]
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:07:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200505201808.00055.jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050521004333.GA20174@krispykreme>

On Friday, May 20, 2005 5:43 pm, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver
> > was obsolete.
> >
> > It seems to be time to remove it.
>
> Disagree. We need someone to benchmark and prove O_DIRECT on the raw
> device isnt a performance regression first.

I don't have data on hand, but I recall seeing O_DIRECT on block devices 
(at least SCSI ones), attaining something very close to line rate, and 
scaling quite well as I/O was added.

Jesse

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-21  1:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-21  0:19 [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver Adrian Bunk
2005-05-21  0:43 ` [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver] Anton Blanchard
2005-05-21  1:07   ` Jesse Barnes [this message]
2005-05-21  0:45 ` [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver Horst von Brand
2005-05-21 22:47   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-21  1:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-05-21  7:41   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-21  7:52     ` William Lee Irwin III
2005-05-21  5:35 ` Greg KH
2005-05-21 11:49   ` Roman Zippel
2005-06-23 10:08   ` [2.6 patch] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removal Adrian Bunk

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