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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:52:03 +0300 From: Viktor <vvp01@...ox.ru> To: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> CC: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>, Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>, Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, Aubrey <aubreylee@...il.com>, Hua Zhong <hzhong@...il.com>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org Subject: Re: O_DIRECT question Mark Lord wrote: > You guys need to backup in this thread. > > Every example of O_DIRECT here could be replaced with > calls to mmap(), msync(), and madvise() (or posix_fadvise). No. How about handling IO errors? There is no practical way for it with mmap(). > In addition to being at least as fast as O_DIRECT, > these have the added benefit of using the page cache > (avoiding reads for data already present, handling multiple > users of the same data, etc..). > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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