vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Igor Sysoev
Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache. What I can not understand where the read ahead data can be placed in ? -- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Sujit Karataparambil
vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache. What I can not understand where the read ahead data can be placed in ? -- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Igor Sysoev
vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache. What I can not understand where the read ahead data can be placed in ? -- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Sujit Karataparambil
a second parallel ahead disk transaction with supplied userland buffer or not. -- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/ On 9/3/08, Igor Sysoev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:03:21PM +0530, Sujit Karataparambil wrote: These are Journalling File System. Some thing like WAPBL which stands for Write-Ahead Physical Block Logging. These are built on Generic kernel components. vfs.ffs.rawreadahead as it may be seen from its name is read-ahead

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache. What I can not understand where the read

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 04:47:33PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Long
what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data directly to an userland buffer bypassing the buffer cache. What I can not understand where the read ahead data can be placed in ? The operation of the ffs_rawread is more accurately described

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:44:46AM -0600, Scott Long wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable

Re: vfs.ffs.rawreadahead

2008-09-03 Thread Scott Long
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Igor Sysoev wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 03:39:55PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:53:52PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote: Hi, could anyone tell what does vfs.ffs.rawreadahead enable ? As I understand it's used in DIRECTIO code that allows read data