New configure option --enable-track-src-odirect

README

@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ By default the filter feature is disabled if effective user id and real
 user id differ. This ban can be lifted by
     --enable-external-filters-setuid
 
+In some situations Linux may deliver a better write performance to DVD drives 
+if 64 KB rather than 32 KB are transmitted in each write operation.
+64k can be made default at configure time by:
+    --enable-dvd-obs-64k
+
 
                        Drives and Disk File Objects 
 

xorriso/README

@@ -102,6 +102,18 @@ By default the filter feature is disabled if effective user id and real
 user id differ. This ban can be lifted by
     --enable-external-filters-setuid
 
+In some situations Linux may deliver a better write performance to drives if
+the track input is read with O_DIRECT (see man 2 open). The included libburn
+and the cdrecord emulation of xorriso can be told to use this peculiar read
+mode by:
+   --enable-track-src-odirect
+
+But often libburn will yield even better performance in such a situation if
+64 KB are transmitted in each write operation rather than 32 KB.
+64k can be made default at configure time by:
+    --enable-dvd-obs-64k
+This may be combined with above --enable-track-src-odirect .
+
 If you want xorriso to report a "Build timestamp" with its option -version:
     make buildstamped
 

xorriso/configure_ac.txt

@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ fi
 AC_SUBST(EXTF_SUID_DEF)
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE(dvd-obs-64k,
-[  --enable-dvd-obs-64k            64 KB default size for DVD/BD writing, default=no],
+[  --enable-dvd-obs-64k         64 KB default size for DVD/BD writing, default=no],
                , enable_fifo_odirect=no)
 if test x$enable_dvd_obs_64k = xyes; then
     XORRISO_DVD_OBS_64K="-DXorriso_dvd_obs_default_64K"
@@ -216,6 +216,17 @@ else
 fi
 AC_SUBST(XORRISO_DVD_OBS_64K)
 
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(track-src-odirect,
+[  --enable-track-src-odirect   Enable use of O_DIRECT with -as cdrskin, default=no],
+               , enable_track_src_odirect=no)
+if test x$enable_track_src_odirect = xyes; then
+    LIBBURN_O_DIRECT_DEF="-DLibburn_read_o_direcT"
+    echo "enabled  use of O_DIRECT with input of -as cdrskin"
+else
+    LIBBURN_O_DIRECT_DEF=
+    echo "disabled use of O_DIRECT with input of -as cdrskin"
+fi
+AC_SUBST(LIBBURN_O_DIRECT_DEF)
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 	Makefile

xorriso/xorriso_makefile_am.txt

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ xorriso_xorriso_CPPFLAGS = -I./libburn -I./libisofs -I./libisoburn -I./xorriso
 # are in a separate readline-development package.
 xorriso_xorriso_CFLAGS = -DXorriso_standalonE -DXorriso_with_maiN \
                          $(READLINE_DEF) $(LIBACL_DEF) $(XATTR_DEF) \
-                         $(EXTF_DEF) $(EXTF_SUID_DEF) $(ZLIB_DEF)
+                         $(EXTF_DEF) $(EXTF_SUID_DEF) $(ZLIB_DEF) \
+                         $(XORRISO_DVD_OBS_64K) $(LIBBURN_O_DIRECT_DEF)
 
 xorriso_xorriso_LDADD = $(THREAD_LIBS) $(LIBBURN_ARCH_LIBS)
 

xorriso/xorriso_timestamp.h

@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define Xorriso_timestamP "2009.11.28.123903"
+#define Xorriso_timestamP "2009.11.28.124241"