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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>,
	arjan@fenrus.demon.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:21:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020205142154.D37@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020201144751.A32553@havoc.gtf.org> <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0202021339090.17850-100000@imladris.surriel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33L.0202021339090.17850-100000@imladris.surriel.com>; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 01:39:34PM -0200

Hi!

> > > the biggest reason for this is that we *suck* at readahead for mmap....
> >
> > Is there not also fault overhead and similar issues related to mmap(2)
> > in general, that are not present with read(2)/write(2)?
> 
> If a fault is more expensive than a system call, we're doing
> something wrong in the page fault path ;)

You can read 128K at a time, but you can't fault 128K...
								Pavel

-- 
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-05 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-29 15:54 [PATCH] Radix-tree pagecache for 2.5 Christoph Hellwig
2002-01-29 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 21:40   ` David S. Miller
2002-01-29 22:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 23:01       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 23:32         ` Alan Cox
2002-01-29 23:35           ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-30  3:00             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-31 23:44           ` Anton Blanchard
2002-02-01  0:34             ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 11:04               ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-01 11:33                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-02-02 18:57                 ` Richard Henderson
2002-02-02 21:15                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 23:02   ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-29 23:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 23:45       ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-01-30 21:25       ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-30 22:05         ` John Stoffel
2002-01-30 22:15           ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-31  2:33             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-31 13:58               ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-31 14:36                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-31 15:32                   ` Alan Cox
2002-01-31 16:39                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-31 17:19                     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-31 17:21                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-31 17:50                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-31 17:46                   ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-31 18:02                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-31 18:32                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-31 18:38                         ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-31 18:49                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-31 19:09                             ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-31 19:26                             ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-31 21:12                             ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-31 19:14                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-01-31 19:23                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-31 21:34                             ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-31 23:12                               ` Anton Blanchard
2002-01-31 23:55                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-01  0:01                                   ` David S. Miller
2002-02-16 16:20                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-01  3:56                                   ` Anton Blanchard
2002-02-01  6:32                                 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01 18:38                                   ` Anton Blanchard
2002-02-01  9:04                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-01  7:59                                   ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01 10:29                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-01  9:01                                       ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01  9:10                                         ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01  9:07                                       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01  9:13                                         ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01 17:06                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-02-01 18:29                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 18:44                                           ` arjan
2002-02-01 19:47                                             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 15:39                                               ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-05 14:21                                                 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-02-05 18:45                                                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-05 20:30                                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2002-02-05 20:46                                                     ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-06  9:07                                                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-05  9:19                                           ` Zdenek Kabelac
2002-02-01 23:49                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-01 14:44                                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-01 14:59                                   ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01 17:03                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-02-01 15:26                                       ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-01 23:45                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-01-31 10:41             ` Josh MacDonald
2002-01-31 14:00               ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-31 14:21               ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-30 22:22           ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-01-30  3:02     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 23:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-02 19:23 rwhron
2002-02-03 14:31 ` chris
2002-02-03 23:33 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-02-04  3:59   ` rwhron
2002-02-06  2:04   ` rwhron
2002-02-06 11:44     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-06 21:34 rwhron
2002-02-06 21:37 ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-06 22:06   ` rwhron
2002-02-07 11:32   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-07 11:32   ` Daniel Phillips

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