Re: Lockless page cache test results

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On Thu, Apr 27 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 13:16:25 +0200
> Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Added, 1 vs 2/3/4 clients isn't very interesting, so to keep it short
> > here are numbers for 2 clients to /dev/null and localhost.
> > 
> Thank you! looks splice has significant advantage :)
> 
> > Sending to /dev/null
> > 
> > ml370:/data # ./splice-bench -n2 -l10 -a -s -z file
> > Waiting for clients
> > Client1 (splice): 19030 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 551 msecs)
> > Client0 (splice): 18961 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 553 msecs)
> This maybe shows cost of gathering page-cache.

Precisely, it's basically the cost of looking up the pages and adding
them to the pipe.

> > Client1 (mmap): 158875 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 66 msecs)
> > Client0 (mmap): 158875 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 66 msecs)
> This shows read/write system-call and user program cost. right ?

It shows the cost of write()'ing the mmap'ed file area to /dev/null.

> > Client1 (rw): 1691 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 6200 msecs)
> > Client0 (rw): 1690 MiB/sec (10240MiB in 6201 msecs)
> > 
> This shows 10240MiB copy_to_user() cost.
> BTW, How big are cpu-cache-size and read/write buffer size in this test ?

This was done on a xeon with 2mb l2. The buffers size used was 64k in
all cases.

> > Sending/receiving over lo
> > 
> read from a file and write to lo ?

I'd rather say input is a file and output is a socket going to lo, that
is a little more precisely given the differing methods the clients use.
But I suspect this is what you meant.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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