Code review comment for lp:~vlad-lesin/percona-server/5.5-bug801989

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Vlad Lesin (vlad-lesin) wrote :

> So what we should do is to disable ALL_O_DIRECT (i.e. O_DIRECT for
> log files) and switch to O_DIRECT (i.e. O_DIRECT on data files only)
> if setting O_DIRECT on a log file fails. That is, essentially use
> the fix suggested by Yasufumi, but perhaps a cleaner variant,
> i.e. in os_file_create_func() check the value returned by
> os_file_set_nocache() introduced by your patch, and if it failed, do
> srv_unix_file_flush_method = SRV_UNIX_O_DIRECT). This way we will at
> least do fsync() on log files when setting O_DIRECT failed.
Done.
> - the bug also affects 5.1. I have updated the bug accordingly
It will be separate MP.

> - after fixing the above, please put description to revision comments
> in addition to MP. Note that it's ok to reference bug numbers by
> their number (e.g. "bug #...") rather than by the full URL. It's
> unambiguous, but shorter
Done.

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