11. 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
11.1 Allocating global buffers
11.2 Setting the number of global buffer sectors
11.3 Specifying the prefetch facility
11.4 Specifying the asynchronous READ facility
11.5 Specifying deferred write processing
11.6 Specifying the facility for parallel writes in deferred write processing
11.7 Setting the commit-time reflection processing
11.8 Global buffer LRU management
11.9 Page access using the snapshot method
11.10 Global buffer pre-writing
11.11 Local buffers