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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru
Cc: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, christopher.leech@intel.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT)
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:08:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060304.180819.44228793.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060305014324.GA20026@2ka.mipt.ru>

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 04:43:25 +0300

> According to investigation made for kevent based FS AIO reading,
> get_user_pages() performange graph looks like sqrt() function
> with plato starting on about 64-80 pages on Xeon 2.4Ghz with 1Gb of ram,
> while memcopy() is linear, so it can be noticebly slower than
> copy_to_user() if get_user_pages() is used aggressively, so userspace
> application must reuse the same, already grabbed buffer for maximum
> performance, but Intel folks did not provide theirs usage case and any
> benchmarks as far as I know.

Of course, and programming the DMA controller has overhead
as well.  This is why would would not use I/O AT with small
transfer sizes.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-05  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-03 21:40 [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem Chris Leech
2006-03-04  1:40   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 19:39     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-04 19:20   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-03-06 19:48     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] [I/OAT] Setup the networking subsystem as a DMA client Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] [I/OAT] Utility functions for offloading sk_buff to iovec copies Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:15   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] [I/OAT] Structure changes for TCP recv offload to I/OAT Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:19   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] [I/OAT] Rename cleanup_rbuf to tcp_cleanup_rbuf and make non-static Chris Leech
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] [I/OAT] Add a sysctl for tuning the I/OAT offloaded I/O threshold Chris Leech
2006-03-04 11:22   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-03-05  7:21   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-03 21:42 ` [PATCH 8/8] [I/OAT] TCP recv offload to I/OAT Chris Leech
2006-03-04 16:39   ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-04 23:18   ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 19:28     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-05  7:30   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05  8:45   ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05 10:27     ` David S. Miller
2006-03-06 19:36     ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:27 ` [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Jeff Garzik
2006-03-03 22:39   ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:45     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-04 11:35     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-05  8:09     ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-05  9:02       ` Discourage duplicate symbols in the kernel? [Was: Intel I/O Acc...] Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-05  9:18         ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-06 19:56           ` Chris Leech
2006-03-03 22:58 ` [PATCH 0/8] Intel I/O Acceleration Technology (I/OAT) Kumar Gala
2006-03-03 23:32   ` Chris Leech
2006-03-04 18:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-04 21:41   ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05  1:43     ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-05  2:08       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-06 17:44       ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-07  7:44         ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-03-07  9:43           ` Ingo Oeser
2006-03-07 10:16             ` Evgeniy Polyakov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-11  2:27 Chris Leech

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