09-13-2011
Lseek implementation
Hi everybody,
i've been googling for ages now and gotten kinda desperate... The question, however, might be rather trivial for the experts: What is it exactly, i.e. physically, the POSIX function (for a file) "lseek" does? Does it trigger some kind of synchronization on disk? Is it just for the file system?
Rationale:
I'm am running some benchmarks to get an idea, how our system (ext4@Debian5) works. I'm having 100 threads reading or writing randomly small requests on disk (POSIX read/write with DIRECT_IO) -> read,lseek,read,lseek,... or write,lseek,write,lseek,... . The mean lseek response time while reading is marginally small, however, the mean lseek response time while writing is appr. as high as the mean response time of a write itself (several ms), and I don't know why...
Any help is appreciated.
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