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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:16:37 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3
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* Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

> I can tell you that the problem (at least on my machine) comes from :
> 
> gettimeofday(&tm, NULL);
> 
> in evserver_epoll.c

yeah, that's another difference - especially if it's something like an 
Athlon64 and gettimeofday falls back to pm-timer, that could explain the 
performance difference. That's why i repeatedly asked Evgeniy to use the 
/very same/ client function for both the epoll and the kevent test and 
redo the measurements. The numbers are still highly suspect - and we are 
already down from the prior claim of kevent being almost twice as fast 
to a 25% difference.

	Ingo