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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:13:59 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20021011101359.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021010224417.GA2673@matchmail.com>


On 10-Oct-2002 Mike Fedyk wrote:
>> [...] I would
>> like a way to read the db so that the cached part of
>> the db (the 20% which gets 80% of accesses) is not
>> expunged.
>
> Unless you are pausing the database (causing the files on disk to be in a
> useful state) and then reading the file you will have trouble.  Anything
> else will have to syncronize with the database itself, and thus can't use
> O_STREAMING.

All the cached db pages will be dropped regardless its state. Any
further access to the db will read the data from disk again. I'm
talking only about performance, not about db coherency.

Bye.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-11  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-08  2:38 [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O Robert Love
2002-10-08 10:42 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-10-08 18:08   ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 18:38 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 18:49   ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 19:05     ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 19:17       ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 19:30         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-09 14:14           ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-09 16:30           ` kernel
2002-10-08 19:52         ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 19:59           ` Robert Love
2002-10-08 20:01             ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-09  8:33         ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09  8:43           ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-09 10:55             ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09 17:05           ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-09 19:36             ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-09 22:24               ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-09 23:20                 ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-10  3:07                   ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10 10:55                     ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10 17:50                       ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-10  3:29                   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10  3:37                     ` Robert Love
2002-10-10 13:39                       ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 22:50                         ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-10 22:58                           ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-11  8:26                           ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-11  8:32                           ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10  8:33                     ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10  9:10                       ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10  9:38                         ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 10:40                           ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-10-10 11:01                           ` Helge Hafting
2002-10-10 12:29                             ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-10 13:17                             ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-10-10 22:44                               ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-11  8:13                                 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2002-10-10 11:38                     ` O_STREAMING has insufficient info - how about fadvise() ? Alan Cox
2002-10-10 11:47                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10 15:34                       ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 16:08                         ` Alan Cox
2002-10-10 16:49                         ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-10-10 15:37                     ` [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O Gerhard Mack
2002-10-10 22:47                       ` Mike Fedyk
2002-10-11  2:14                         ` Gerhard Mack
2002-10-11  8:10                           ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-10  9:14                 ` David Lang
2002-10-10 14:51               ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-10-08 19:53       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-10-08 19:59         ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-10-08 20:03         ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 20:34           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2002-10-08 20:42             ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-08 20:37           ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-09 11:53 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-10-09 14:10 ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-09 14:14   ` Robert Love
2002-10-09 14:33     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-09 15:27     ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-09 23:17       ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-09 23:46       ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-10  0:16         ` Jamie Lokier
2002-10-10  2:39           ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-10 10:33         ` Marco Colombo
2002-10-10 20:00           ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-11  4:16 Hank Leininger

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