12. Designing Global Buffers and Local Buffers

This chapter describes global buffer and local buffer design.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Organization of this chapter

12.1 Allocating global buffers

12.2 Setting the number of global buffer sectors

12.3 Specifying the prefetch facility

12.4 Specifying the asynchronous READ facility

12.5 Specifying deferred write processing

12.6 Specifying the facility for parallel writes in deferred write processing

12.7 Setting the commit-time reflection processing

12.8 Global buffer LRU management

12.9 Page access using the snapshot method

12.10 Global buffer pre-writing

12.11 Local buffers