Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:57:26 -0200 (BRDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait |
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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > You need aio_open. > > Could you explain this? > > If the server is sending many small files, disk spends huge > amount time walking directory tree and seeking to inodes. Maybe > opening the file is even slower than reading it
Not if you have a big enough inode_cache and dentry_cache.
OTOH ... if you have enough memory the whole async IO argument is moot anyway because all your files will be in memory too.
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