Re: disk.c and friends

No objections, but please do it on a branch until you are reasonably
satisfied with the result...

Regards
Henrik

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Adrian Chadd wrote:

>
> hi all,
>
> i've (rediscovered!) the mess that is disk.c and how various subsections
> handle disk IO. In a nutshell, there's lots of stuff in disk.c that implements
> async disk IO, but nothing ever uses it these days.
>
> I'd like to:
>
> * tidy up disk.c to simply do sync disk IO calls,
> and remove all of the async stuff (queueing,
> write combining)
> * rework things like logfile.c which use file_open()
> but don't use file_write() for some reason
>
> .. and throw it in squid-HEAD.
>
> I also note that in the past, before the great storeio abstraction
> by duane, when async-io was compiled in you'd get async logfile
> writing. (hence the write combining..) does anyone here see a need
> for this to come back at all? Does anyone ever remember logfile
> writing being faster with it turned on?
>
>
>
>
>
> adrian
>
Received on Sun Jul 28 2002 - 15:06:16 MDT