linux-kernel - Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers

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Date:	Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:18:23 -0400
From:	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	杨苏立 Yang Su Li <suli@...wisc.edu>,
	General Discussion of SQLite Database 
	<sqlite-users@...ite.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, drh@...ci.com
Subject: Re: [sqlite] light weight write barriers


Alan Cox, on 10/31/2012 05:54 AM wrote:
>> I don't want to flame on this topic, but you are not right here. As far as I can
>> see, a big chunk of Linux storage and file system developers are/were employed by
>> the "gold-plated storage" manufacturers, starting from FusionIO, SGI and Oracle.
>>
>> You know, RedHat from recent times also stepped to this market, at least I saw
>> their advertisement on SDC 2012. So, you can add here all RedHat employees.
>
> Booleans generally should be reserved for logic operators. Most of the
> Linux companies work on both low and high end storage. The two are not
> mutually exclusive nor do they divide neatly by market. Many big clouds
> use cheap low end drives by the crate, some high end desktops are using
> SAS although given you can get six 2.5" hotplug drives in a 5.25" bay I'm
> not sure personally there is much point

Those doesn't contradict the point that high performance storage vendors are also 
funding Linux kernel storage development.

> Send patches with benchmarks demonstrating it is useful. It's really
> quite simple. Code talks.

How about that recently preliminary infrastructure to send ORDERED commands 
instead of queue draining was deleted from the kernel, because "there's no 
difference where to drain the queue, on the kernel or the storage side"?

Vlad
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