From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:19:37 +0900 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Subject: Re: Lockless page cache test results Message-Id: <20060427111937.deeed668.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <20060426185750.GM5002@suse.de> References: <20060426135310.GB5083@suse.de> <20060426095511.0cc7a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20060426174235.GC5002@suse.de> <20060426185750.GM5002@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jens Axboe Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:57:50 +0200 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26 2006, Jens Axboe wrote: > > We can speedup the lookups with find_get_pages(). The test does 64k max, > > so with luck we should be able to pull 16 pages in at the time. I'll try > > and run such a test. But boy I wish find_get_pages_contig() was there > > for that. I think I'd prefer adding that instead of coding that logic in > > splice, it can get a little tricky. > > Here's such a run, graphed with the other two. I'll redo the lockless > side as well now, it's only fair to compare with that batching as well. > Hi, thank you for interesting tests. >>From user's view, I want to see the comparison among - splice(file,/dev/null), - mmap+madvise(file,WILLNEED)/write(/dev/null), - read(file)/write(/dev/null) in this 1-4 threads test. This will show when splice() can be used effectively. Thanks, -Kame -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org