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From: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it>
To: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adaptive read-ahead: benchmarks
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:28:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050915162856.1fd5bb38@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050915131651.GA5336@mail.ustc.edu.cn>

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 21:16:51 +0800
WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> wrote:

> oprofile() {
>         opcontrol --vmlinux=/temp/kernel/linux-2.6.13ra/vmlinux
>         opcontrol --start
>         opcontrol --reset
>         echo $1 > /proc/sys/vm/readahead_ratio
>         dd if=/temp/kernel/hugefile of=/dev/null bs=$bs
>         opreport -l -o oprofile.$1.$bs /temp/kernel/linux-2.6.13ra/vmlinux
>         opcontrol --stop
> }

just a side note: shouldn't you umount and remount "/temp" to remove
the pagecache? Or is the file so big that it doesn't matter?

PS: instead of unmount/remount you can use "fadvise":
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/ext3-tools.tar.gz

-- 
	Paolo Ornati
	Linux 2.6.14-rc1 on x86_64

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 13:16 Adaptive read-ahead: benchmarks WU Fengguang
2005-09-15 14:28 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2005-09-15 14:52   ` WU Fengguang

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