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>