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Re: Setting innodb_flush_method to O_DIRECT on Centos 7.8
Posted by: Federico Razzoli
Date: November 21, 2020 08:42PM

Yes, IO_DIRECT prevents double buffering. InnoDB has its own buffer pool, and when you modify data/index pages that are cached, the change is made in memory until the modified pages are flushed to disk. But Linux buffer cache at this point could cache the page instead of writing it immediately. This makes very little sense, and you can avoid this with IO_DIRECT.

However with tmpfs there is no concept of "flushing data to disk", because everything stays in memory. The IO_DIRECT flag is disabled for tmpfs, simply because it doesn't matter.

Keep IO_DIRECT. It will avoid double buffering on your datadir, and it's irrelevant for your tmpdir.

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Federico Razzoli
Director @ Vettabase Ltd
https://vettabase.com

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