On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > You need aio_open. > > Could you explain this? > > If the server is sending many small files, disk spends huge > amount time walking directory tree and seeking to inodes. Maybe > opening the file is even slower than reading it Not if you have a big enough inode_cache and dentry_cache. OTOH ... if you have enough memory the whole async IO argument is moot anyway because all your files will be in memory too. regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ben LaHaise
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Pavel Machek
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Mikulas Patocka
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Mikulas Patocka
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Marcelo Tosatti
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Rik van Riel
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... James Sutherland
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Martin Dalecki
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Mikulas Patocka
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Pavel Machek
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie