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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <lopresti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is splice() useful without page stealing?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:34:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091218063454.GD32739@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23986fd90912171847w6d46ba2bx9d8763a63fc758c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:47:19PM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
(...)
> Now, if splice() actually let you do things like flip pages from the
> network stack into the page cache with zero copies, then I could see
> the point.  As it is, I am curious to know:
> 
> 1) Does anybody have any actual benchmarks showing performance
> advantages for splice() over read()/write()?   If so, can I obtain the
> benchmark code?

I did this for TCP->TCP sockets, and the gain is huge at high
bit rates (10 Gbps). Basically, 10 Gbps at 20% CPU with splice,
100% CPU with recv/send. You can find the test results here :

   http://haproxy.1wt.eu/10g.html

I'm not using splice for disk-to-net nor net-to-disk transfers though.

Willy


      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-18  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-18  2:47 Is splice() useful without page stealing? Patrick J. LoPresti
2009-12-18  6:34 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]

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