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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: peter@chubb.wattle.id.au, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	davem@redhat.com, cw@f00f.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stat very inefficient
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:02:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729020252.0eaed212.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729014940.7f1e3315.pj@sgi.com>

Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> Andrew wrote:
>  > hmm.  Here's a Pentium III profile ...
> 
>  What conclusion do your draw from this profile?

At a quick squint: we spend about 10% of total system time in those copy
functions.  If we halve their runtime (which would be good), we don't gain
much.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <233602095@toto.iv>
2004-07-28 22:33 ` stat very inefficient Peter Chubb
2004-07-28 22:45   ` David S. Miller
2004-07-29  0:08     ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-29  0:14       ` David S. Miller
2004-07-29  0:24         ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-29  0:29         ` viro
2004-07-29  7:26           ` Peter Chubb
2004-07-29  7:42             ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-29  8:49               ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-29  9:02                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-07-29  9:17                   ` Peter Chubb
2004-07-29  7:45             ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-07-29 11:42         ` Nigel Rantor
2004-07-29  1:07     ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-07-29  2:22       ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-29  4:10         ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-07-29  6:18           ` Paul Jackson
     [not found] <2mN94-3MP-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-07-28 10:16 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-28 15:38   ` David S. Miller
2004-07-28  3:13 David S. Miller
2004-07-28 18:07 ` viro

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