Re: [Libcdio-devel] Disabling Drive Cache for Paranoia

[R. Bernstein]

What you describe, exposing the cache reada-head setting so it is
use-settable, sounds very reasonable.

Please do put together a patch. Assuming it has no glaring problems,
I'd make sure it got into libcdio. And if for some reason I'm busy,
there are other people who have commit access.

Thanks.

Jason Voegele writes:
 > On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:13, Peter Creath wrote:
 > > How big is your drive's cache?  There's a setting in the
 > > cdrom_paranoia_t that you pass to paranoia_read() that specifies how
 > > many sectors cdparanoia needs to read to exhaust your cache.
 > > Specifically, it's cdrom_paranoia_t.readahead.
 > 
 > So I am responding to a message that is nearly a year old, as I've now 
 > gotten 
 > to the point where I can actually make use of this information.
 > 
 > I have looked through the libcdio and cdparanoia sources, and I have found 
 > the 
 > cdrom_paranoia_t.readahead setting mentioned above.  Unfortunately, this 
 > setting is hard coded to the value 150, and is buried in an "opaque" 
 > structure so that it is not possible to set the value programatically from 
 > an 
 > external application.  In order to change this value from 150 to something 
 > more appropriate for a drive with a bigger cache, it is necessary to modify 
 > the source code, recompile, relink, etc. etc..
 > 
 > It would be of greate benefit to me to have this setting be exposed in some 
 > way so that I could set its value from my application.  What are your 
 > thoughts on this?  Is there a fundamental reason that the value is hard 
 > coded 
 > to 150?  Would exposing this value to applications be of benefit to anyone 
 > else?
 > 
 > If I were to put together a patch that accomplishes this, would it be 
 > something that could be incorporated into libcdio's paranoia library?
 > 
 > -- 
 > Jason Voegele
 > The degree of technical confidence is inversely proportional to the
 > level of management.
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