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From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: capset() capget() syscalls
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1WyA=eadYzbyajKXoaYcDfqdfk8cQ3v=LJWkFzrqkQOmdA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120908221449.GZ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> Is there any legitimate user of this horrible API? Last I checked
> these functions were only useful for block-aligned IO on block devices
> and the impression I got was that they were designed solely for
> Oracle's use. (puke) I suppose they could be useful for FUSE drivers
> too, however. We can add them if they have legitimate software that
> needs them.

It is still the only way to get decent io performance out of an SSD as
far as I can see, being about a factor of 8 faster than anything else
for random reads eg posix aio. Assuming of course our reads are block
aligned.

Justin


  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-09 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-27 11:51 igmar
2012-09-05  6:19 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-05  9:28   ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-05 14:24     ` Rich Felker
2012-09-05 17:01       ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-06  3:04         ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06  3:10           ` John Spencer
2012-09-06  3:20             ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06  3:28               ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-06  3:41                 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06  4:41                   ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-06  8:22           ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-06  9:28             ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-09-06 14:23               ` Rich Felker
2012-09-07  4:56             ` Rich Felker
2012-09-08 16:02               ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-08 22:14                 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 20:04                   ` Justin Cormack [this message]
2012-09-09 20:14                     ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 21:13                   ` James Cloos
2012-09-09 21:55                     ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:12                       ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 22:29                         ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:37                           ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-10 15:07                             ` James Cloos
2012-09-08 21:25               ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-08 22:15                 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-08 23:56                   ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09  0:21                 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09  8:21                   ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 19:40                     ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:02                       ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 21:07                         ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:23                         ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:31                           ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:58                             ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:14                               ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-15  1:54                                 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-16 14:13                                   ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-17  2:27                                     ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06 11:47           ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-06 11:36       ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-06 14:11         ` Rich Felker

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