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Date:	Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:55:53 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	"Igor A. Valcov" <viaprog@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS filesystem performance drop in kernels 2.6.16+


>>     for (i = 0; i < 262144; i++) {
>>         /* Write data to a big file */
>>         write (nFiles [0], buf, __BYTES);
>> 
>>         /* Write data to small files */
>>         for (f = 1; f < __FILES; f++)
>>             write (nFiles [f], &f, sizeof (f));
>>     }
>
>This sits in a loop doing write(fd, buf, 4).  This is wildly inefficient -
>you'd get a 10x throughput benefit and maybe 100x reduction in CPU cost
>simply by switching to fwrite().

Well yes and no. The problem here is the syscall overhead. fwrite 
buffers things, so needless syscalls are avoided.
The same could be done by changing the program logic and increasing the 
size argument to read/write.

>I suspect something went wrong here.

Design error. :)


	-`J'
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