Subject: Re: Faster pipes, now with uvm_loan()
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/2001 13:20:46
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:

 > Good stuff Jaromir, thanks for doing this. One thing though:
 > 
 > On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 09:08:37PM +0200, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
 > >          old pipes        new pipes         new pipes with uvm_loan()
 > > PIII     487    MB/sec    487    MB/sec     567    MB/sec
 >            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > > 386DX      0.75 MB/sec      3.57 MB/sec       4.70 MB/sec
 > 
 > Surely the first 487Mb/sec must be something else..

He already said in a previous message that on fast machines, the new pipe
code didn't improve things really at all.  But it's nice to see that there's
an improvement when using uvm_loan().

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>