Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:42:24 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O |
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Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > ... > I use a program called VDR. This is for recording digital-TV-program > from satallite. > > After a recording is finished i cut the recordings. I my case i "stream" > the input-data via NFS from the recording machine(s) through a converter > into the local temporary directory. After i have enough files i create > ISO-images of the files. When i create an ISO-images i "stream" the > files from HDD1 to HDD2 because otherwise it would completly kill the > performance. Then i burn the ISO-Image onto a DVD-R. > > Every single part in the whole process trashes the cache.
Right. You dont have O_DIRECT for NFS and you control the application. You need O_STREAMING. Or posix_fadvise(), which would be significantly harder to use and is not really implementable in 2.4.
Any magical kernel voodoo which reads your mind and drops that cache early would probably help, but there's no way in which it can be as effective as an explicit hint. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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