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Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:23:13 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] RFC: iov_iter: Switch to using an ops table
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 6:13 AM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone recommend a good way to benchmark this properly? The problem
> is that the difference this makes relative to the amount of time taken to
> actually do I/O is tiny.
Maybe try /dev/zero -> /dev/null to try a load where the IO itself is
cheap. Or vmsplice to /dev/null?
Linus
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