Messages in this thread | | | From | Jesse Barnes <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove the obsolete raw driver] | Date | Fri, 20 May 2005 18:07:59 -0700 |
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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.
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