Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I'm also less than convinced that it'd be helpful for a big seqscan:
>> won't reading a new disk page into memory via DMA cause that memory to
>> get flushed from the processor cache anyway?
> Nope. DMA is writing directly into main memory. If the area was in
> the L2/L1 cache, it will get invalidated. But if it isn't there, it
> is okay.
So either way, it isn't in processor cache after the read. So how can
there be any performance benefit?
regards, tom lane
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