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Re: linux generic SCSI interface 'READ' speed.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (GOTO Masanori)
Thu Dec 17 08:08:19 1998

To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@cs.titech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "17 Dec 1998 12:50:46 +0100"
	<75ar6m$uki$1@vulcan.alphanet.ch>
Date: 	Thu, 17 Dec 1998 21:54:54 +0900

From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Subject: Re: linux generic SCSI interface 'READ' speed.
> 
> 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.

It seems good, But, I don't know about it...
I can't find about the new direct IO. Would you tell me informations?

Regards,
--
GOTO Masanori
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Computer Science

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