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Re: linux generic SCSI interface 'READ' speed.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Thu Dec 17 06:56:56 1998

To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 	17 Dec 1998 12:50:46 +0100

GOTO Masanori <gotom@cs.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
> * How method is the generic SCSI interface to make more faster?
> * Can a program using the generic SCSI interface run with pthread?
> * Are there any way to make simple buffering system?

What about trying the new direct IO on block devices (see kernel
announcement) with a multithreaded program ?

Direct IO theoretically doesn't have the overhead of copying the
data (which everything going through the buffer cache has).

Multithreaded or async I/O allows to suppress the overhead of
system + SCSI since at least a command is always outstanding.


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