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Message-Id: <1192110617.3696.2.camel@blackberry>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:50:17 +0200
From: Michael Stiller <ms@...ale.net>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: howto boost write(2) performance?
On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:56 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Michael Stiller <ms@...ale.net> writes:
> >
> > The write(2) performance is not good enough, the writer threads take to
> > much time, and i ask you for ideas, howto to boost the write
> > performance.
>
> You could use an O_DIRECT write if the data is suitably aligned
> and your IO sizes are big enough (O_DIRECT is usually a loss
> on small IOs). It will also be synchronous, but if you do it
> from a separate thread anyways that should be fine.
Thanks to all who answered and especially to Andi. Using O_DIRECT did
the trick.
Cheers,
Michael
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