Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:53:10 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Lockless page cache test results |
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Hi,
Running a splice benchmark on a 4-way IPF box, I decided to give the lockless page cache patches from Nick a spin. I've attached the results as a png, it pretty much speaks for itself.
The test in question splices a 1GiB file to a pipe and then splices that to some output. Normally that output would be something interesting, in this case it's simply /dev/null. So it tests the input side of things only, which is what I wanted to do here. To get adequate runtime, the operation is repeated a number of times (120 in this example). The benchmark does that number of loops with 1, 2, 3, and 4 clients each pinned to a private CPU. The pinning is mainly done for more stable results.
-- Jens Axboe
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