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From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:11:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47CFDF55.6030103@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803060120.38032.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:

> One thing to try is pinning both processes on the same CPU. This
> may be what the FreeBSD scheduler is preferring to do, and it ends
> up being really a tradeoff that helps some workloads and hurts
> others. With a very unscientific test with an old kernel, the
> pipe.c test gets anywhere from about 1.5 to 3 times faster when
> running it as taskset 1 ./pipe

Sounds interesting. What kernel version did you tried? Can you
send your .config to me?

I've tried this trick on 2.6.25-rc4, and got ~20% more throughput for
large (> 8K) buffers at the cost of going ~30% down for the small ones.

Dmitry

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06 12:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05  7:46 Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ? Antipov Dmitry
2008-03-05  8:00 ` David Miller
2008-03-05  9:47   ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-05 10:19     ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-05 12:12     ` David Newall
2008-03-05 14:20     ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 14:55       ` Eric Dumazet
2008-03-05 15:38         ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 15:55           ` Ray Lee
2008-03-05 16:02             ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-06 12:11       ` Dmitry Antipov [this message]
2008-03-17 12:53         ` Nick Piggin

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