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Date:	Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:24:39 +0545
From:	"Manish Regmi" <regmi.manish@...il.com>
To:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org
Subject: Re: Linux disk performance.

On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it,
> since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the
> kernel will favor those.
>
> to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded setup where you do an
> msync/fdatasync/sync_file_range on a frequent-but-regular interval from
> a thread. Be aware that this is quite likely to give you lower maximum
> performance than the batching behavior though.
>

Thanks...

But isn't O_DIRECT supposed to bypass buffering in Kernel?
Doesn't it directly write to disk?
I tried to put fdatasync() at regular intervals but there was no
visible effect.

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Manish Regmi

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