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Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:47:00 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.w.r.degoede@....nl
Subject: Re: cat /proc/net/tcp takes 0.5 seconds on x86_64

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:29:18PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On a 2GB Core2 system here I see a time cat /proc/net/tcp > /dev/null
> > constently dropping from 0.44s to 0.4-0.8s system time with this change.
> > This is with mostly empty hash tables.
> 
> Umm, 0.4 to 0.8 seconds is on average _slower_ than 0.44 seconds.  Did you
> mean .04 to .08?

Yes noticed that too -- i think it must have been .04-.08 and the zeros
got lost somewhere. I remember that it was significantly faster. It's really 
a benchmark how fast an read lock aquire/release is, but even on 
the best systems it's quite slow compared to lockless code.

-Andi

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