linux-kernel - RE: [RFC PATCH 9/9] iov_iter: Add benchmarking kunit tests for UBUF/IOVEC

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Message-ID: <dcc6543d71524ac488ca2a56dd430118@AcuMS.aculab.com>
Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:09:12 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'David Howells' <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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        "Christian Brauner" <christian@...uner.io>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "Brendan Higgins" <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>,
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        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 9/9] iov_iter: Add benchmarking kunit tests for
 UBUF/IOVEC

From: David Howells
> Sent: 14 September 2023 23:15
> 
> Add kunit tests to benchmark 256MiB copies to a UBUF iterator and an IOVEC
> iterator.  This attaches a userspace VM with a mapped file in it
> temporarily to the test thread.

Isn't that going to be completely dominated by the cache fills
from memory?

I'd have thought you'd need to use something with a lot of
small fragments so that the iteration code dominates the copy.

Some measurements can be made using readv() and writev()
on /dev/zero and /dev/null.

	David

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