Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: O_DIRECT question | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:45:40 +0100 |
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On Sunday 14 January 2007 10:11, Nate Diller wrote: > On 1/12/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > Most applications don't get the kind of performance analysis that > Digeo was doing, and even then, it's rather lucky that we caught that. > So I personally think it'd be best for libc or something to simulate > the O_STREAM behavior if you ask for it. That would simplify things > for the most common case, and have the side benefit of reducing the > amount of extra code an application would need in order to take > advantage of that feature.
Sounds like you are saying that making O_DIRECT really mean O_STREAM will work for everybody (including db people, except that they will moan a lot about "it isn't _real_ O_DIRECT!!! Linux suxxx"). I don't care about that. -- vda - 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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