Robert Love wrote:
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> ...
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> Andrew, any experience on one vs. the other?
I'd say that if you were designing a new application which
streams large amount of data then yes, you would design it
to use O_DIRECT. You would instantiate a separate IO worker
thread and a message passing mechanism so that thread would
pump your data for you, and would peform your readahead, etc.
If your filesystem supports O_DIRECT, of course. Not all do.
The strength of O_STREAMING is that you can take an existing,
working, megahuge application and make it play better with the
VM by changing a single line of code. No big redesign needed.
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