linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] proc: speedup /proc/stat handling

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:29:32 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Tuner <pjt@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc:  speedup /proc/stat handling

Le mardi 24 janvier 2012 à 17:27 -0800, Andrew Morton a écrit :

> I had a fiddle on an 8-way x86_64 machine.  I'm unable to demonstrate
> any improvement for either of
> 
> time (for i in $(seq 1000); do; cat /proc/self/stat > /dev/null; done)
> time (for i in $(seq 1000); do; cat /proc/1/stat > /dev/null; done)
> 
> oh well.

What size is /proc/stat ?

wc -c /proc/stat

If under 4096, there is no problem with existing code.

I had the problem on a 16-way machine.





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