Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030549AbXAYUDq (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:03:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030551AbXAYUDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:03:45 -0500 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:17744 "EHLO iradimed.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030549AbXAYUDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:03:45 -0500 Message-ID: <45B90D19.60106@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:03:37 -0500 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis Vlasenko CC: Michael Tokarev , Linus Torvalds , Viktor , Aubrey , Hua Zhong , Hugh Dickins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, kenneth.w.chen@in Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question References: <6d6a94c50701101857v2af1e097xde69e592135e54ae@mail.gmail.com> <200701251838.30796.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <45B904CF.1070102@cfl.rr.com> <200701252052.38119.vda.linux@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200701252052.38119.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jan 2007 20:03:58.0298 (UTC) FILETIME=[F2FB83A0:01C740BB] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-14956.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--3.530800-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 408 Lines: 11 Denis Vlasenko wrote: > You mean "You can use aio_write" ? Exactly. You generally don't use O_DIRECT without aio. Combining the two is what gives the big win. - 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/