From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "B. Galliart" <bgallia@orion.it.luc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raw device library to provide block alignment
Date: 10 Aug 2001 22:00:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ouphevfit1v.fsf@pigdrop.muc.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.31.0108091157240.59224-100000@orion.it.luc.edu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
In-Reply-To: "B. Galliart"'s message of "9 Aug 2001 21:42:01 +0200"
"B. Galliart" <bgallia@orion.it.luc.edu> writes:
>
> Is anyone working on such a library as I described above? Or is there
> an easier method?
The standard non raw page cache does what you want.
Basically adding such things kills all the performance benefits raw may
have. If you want raw you should fix your application to use aligned buffers.
-Andi
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2001-08-10 20:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-08-09 19:38 raw device library to provide block alignment B. Galliart
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