Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2007 17:11:42 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: aio is unlikely |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Yes, if you agree with Jeff's original point. > > But I don't, actually. Sure, on some machines+workloads, AIO is more > common than sync IO. But I expect that when we sum across all the > machines+workloads in the world, sync IO is more common and is hence the > case we should optimise for. > > That's assuming that the unlikely() actually does something.
For the record, I agreed with your counter-point, and retract[ed?] my disagreement...
Jeff
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