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Re: Seeking consensus on BZ 16734
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- Cc: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Daniel Colascione <dancol at dancol dot org>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:20:01 +0100
- Subject: Re: Seeking consensus on BZ 16734
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Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:
> The original idea seems to be some misguided idea that read/write
> should perform better with a page-aligned buffer. I can't make any
> sense of this believe except in the case of the O_DIRECT silliness
> Linux supports; normally IO is going to be memcpy to/from fs cache
> buffers and there's no reason to expect page alignment to make that
> faster.
Page aligned copies from the page cache should be faster.
Andreas.
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