Re: O_DIRECT performance impact on 2.4.18 (was: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole
> > interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey
> > on some serious mind-controlling substances [*].
>
> Used with aio its extremely nice. Without the aio patches its a bit lacking
> whenever readahead is useful

But the point is that AIO is needed just to cover up the fundamental
idiocy in the interface. If the interface had been properly designed, it
would have been useful _without_ AIO.

		Linus