Re: O_DIRECT performance impact on 2.4.18 (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56)

Mr. James W. Laferriere
2002-05-11T18:43:30Z

Hello Linus ,

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
... Large snip ...
> And I personally believe that "generate the data yourself" is actually a
> very common case. A pure pipe between two places is not what a computer is
> good at, or what a computer should be used for.
Hmmm , (This may not apply here But ...)
What about linux as a router (ip/ipx/...) or a bridge device ?
Tia , JimL

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