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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 14:11:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100520201122.GL10452@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1OFC1b-0000Yx-80@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:07:23PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > It says nothing at all, in short. You need to have a real source, and a 
> > real destination. Not some empty filesystem and /dev/null destination.
> 
> Sure, I will do that.  It's just a lot harder to measure the effects
> on hardware I have access to, where the CPU speed is just damn too
> large compared to I/O speed.

Try running a CPU burner on all the cores.  Something that's low priority,
so it'll be preempted by FUSE, and doesn't consume much cache.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-20 11:17 [RFC PATCH] fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-20 11:28 ` Jens Axboe
2010-05-20 11:44   ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-20 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-20 17:58   ` Jens Axboe
2010-05-20 18:54   ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-20 19:19     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-20 20:07       ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-20 20:11         ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2010-05-20 20:22           ` Miklos Szeredi

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