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