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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org,
	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] cifs: use add_to_page_cache_lru
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:13:10 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100319011310.GG25636@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524f69651003181143i67d2fbbdw148619b6065bca88@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Seems reasonable to me (also Shaggy acked this).  Any idea how likely
> it would affect performance (and would thus need to run through some
> simple iozone and cthon (timing mode) or similar perf testing)

It should positively affect LRU ordering, and CPU efficiency, but both
such a tiny amount it should be in the noise. It wouldn't affect IO
patterns (except as a side effect of slightly different pagecache
reclaim, but again in the noise).

I wouldn't worry about benchmarking it.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-17  6:23 [patch] cifs: use add_to_page_cache_lru Nick Piggin
2010-03-18 18:43 ` Steve French
2010-03-19  1:13   ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2010-04-21  3:31     ` Steve French

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