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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Viktor <vvp01@inbox.ru>,
	Aubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
	kenneth.w.chen@in
Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:11:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701252211.39017.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B916F2.4070906@tls.msk.ru>

On Thursday 25 January 2007 21:45, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
> > Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >> You mean "You can use aio_write" ?
> > 
> > Exactly.  You generally don't use O_DIRECT without aio.  Combining the
> > two is what gives the big win.
> 
> Well, it's not only aio.  Multithreaded I/O also helps alot -- all this,
> say, to utilize a raid array with many spindles.
> 
> But even single-threaded I/O but in large quantities benefits from O_DIRECT
> significantly, and I pointed this out before.

Which shouldn't be true. There is no fundamental reason why
ordinary writes should be slower than O_DIRECT.
--
vda

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-25 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-11  2:57 O_DIRECT question Aubrey
2007-01-11  3:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11  3:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11  6:09     ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11 15:50       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 16:19         ` Aubrey
2007-01-16  3:41           ` Jörn Engel
2007-01-11 16:23         ` bert hubert
2007-01-11 16:52         ` Xavier Bestel
2007-01-11 17:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 18:41             ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-11 19:00               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 19:49                 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-01-12 17:03             ` Viktor
2007-01-20 16:19         ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-22 15:52           ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-11  5:50   ` Aubrey
2007-01-11  6:06     ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11  6:45       ` Aubrey
2007-01-11  6:57         ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11  7:05           ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  7:54             ` Aubrey
2007-01-11  8:05               ` Roy Huang
2007-01-11 16:45                 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-17  4:29                   ` Aubrey Li
2007-01-12  2:12                 ` Aubrey
2007-01-12  2:47                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  3:59                   ` Roy Huang
2007-01-11  8:12               ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  8:49                 ` Roy Huang
2007-01-11  9:09                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  2:48                 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-12  4:30                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  4:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12  4:56                       ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  4:58                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-12  5:18                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12  5:22                         ` Aubrey
2007-01-12 14:59                           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-13  4:51                             ` Nick Piggin
2007-01-11  6:16     ` Alexander Shishkin
2007-01-11  6:57       ` Aubrey
2007-01-11 12:13   ` Viktor
2007-01-11 15:53     ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-11 16:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-11 17:13       ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-11 23:01         ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-11 23:06           ` Hua Zhong
2007-01-12 15:21             ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-20 16:36         ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-20 20:55           ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-20 23:05             ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-21 12:09               ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-21 20:02                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-22 16:17                   ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-24 21:15                     ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-25 15:44                       ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-25 17:38                         ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-25 19:28                           ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-25 19:52                             ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-25 20:03                               ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-25 20:45                                 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-25 21:11                                   ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
2007-01-26 16:02                                     ` Mark Lord
2007-01-26 16:52                                       ` Viktor
2007-01-26 16:58                                       ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-26 17:05                                     ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-26 23:16                                       ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-02-06 20:39                                         ` Pavel Machek
2007-01-26 18:23                                     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-26 23:35                                       ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-28 15:18                                         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-28 17:03                                           ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-29 15:43                                             ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-29 17:00                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-30  0:05                                               ` Denis Vlasenko
     [not found]                                               ` <45BE7D99.70200@cfl.rr.com>
     [not found]                                                 ` <20070130023056.GN8030@opteron.random>
     [not found]                                                   ` <45BF65E3.6070102@cfl.rr.com>
     [not found]                                                     ` <20070130164806.GQ8030@opteron.random>
2007-01-30 18:50                                                       ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-30 19:57                                                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-30 20:06                                                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-30 23:07                                                           ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-31  2:28                                                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-31  9:37                                                             ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-26 15:53                   ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-11 17:42       ` Alan
2007-01-11 18:00         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12  7:57       ` dean gaudet
2007-01-12 15:27         ` Phillip Susi
2007-01-12 18:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12 20:23           ` Chris Mason
2007-01-12 20:46             ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-12 20:52               ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-12 21:03                 ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-12 21:17                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12 21:54                     ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-12 22:09                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-01-12 22:26                         ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-12 22:35                         ` Erik Andersen
2007-01-12 22:47                           ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-14  9:11                             ` Nate Diller
2007-01-20 16:45                               ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-22  1:47                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2007-01-13 20:07                     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-13 20:27                       ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-14 15:39                         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-12 21:39                   ` Disk Cache, Was: " Zan Lynx
2007-01-12 22:10                     ` Michael Tokarev
2007-01-15 12:11               ` Helge Hafting
2007-01-12 16:59       ` Viktor
2007-01-11 12:45   ` Erik Mouw
2007-01-11  4:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-01-11  5:06   ` Gerrit Huizenga
2007-01-11 16:09   ` Badari Pulavarty
2007-01-11 12:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-11 13:06   ` Martin Mares
2007-01-11 14:15   ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-12  2:13   ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-17 14:27 Alex Tomas
2007-01-22 15:59 Al Boldi
     [not found] <7BYkO-5OV-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
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2007-01-11 13:20                 ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found]   ` <7C74B-2A4-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
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2007-01-13 16:53                     ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-13 19:30                       ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-14 18:51                         ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-01-14 19:39                           ` Bodo Eggert
     [not found]               ` <7DyYK-6lE-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-16 20:26                 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-17  5:55                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-17 22:36                     ` Bodo Eggert
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2007-01-27 14:01       ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-27 14:14         ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-01-28 15:30           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-01-28 17:18             ` Denis Vlasenko

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