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SubjectRe: Linux disk performance.
Manish Regmi wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>> if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it,
>> since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the
>> kernel will favor those.
>>
>> to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded setup where you do an
>> msync/fdatasync/sync_file_range on a frequent-but-regular interval from
>> a thread. Be aware that this is quite likely to give you lower maximum
>> performance than the batching behavior though.
>>
>
> Thanks...
>
> But isn't O_DIRECT supposed to bypass buffering in Kernel?
> Doesn't it directly write to disk?
> I tried to put fdatasync() at regular intervals but there was no
> visible effect.
>

I don't know exactly how to interpret the numbers you gave, but
they look like they might be a (HZ quantised) delay coming from
block layer plugging.

O_DIRECT bypasses caching, but not (all) buffering.

Not sure whether the block layer can handle an unplug_delay set
to 0, but that might be something to try (see block/ll_rw_blk.c).

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