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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add a new generic system call which has better performance, to get /proc data, than existing mechanisms
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:49:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3iYlLmxvIqn/ETF@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221118191202.2357801-1-anjali.k.kulkarni@oracle.com>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 11:12:02AM -0800, Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> I was looking up your readfile() system call and this seems something
> useful to us - is this something expected to go into mainline any time
> soon?

Can you test it to see if it actually helps your workload?  All of the
ones I played with were just very minor improvements or lots in the
noise.

Also, look into using io_uring as that can probably do the same thing,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-19  8:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-18 19:12 [RFC] Add a new generic system call which has better performance, to get /proc data, than existing mechanisms Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-19  8:49 ` Greg KH [this message]
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2022-11-20  8:21     ` Greg KH
2022-11-20 19:37       ` Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-21 18:28       ` Anjali Kulkarni
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2022-11-18 19:10 Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-16 18:37 Anjali Kulkarni
2022-11-17 21:38 ` Greg KH

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