On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 17:02 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 10/04/2007 04:55 PM, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Anything, I do mean anything, can be simulated using small test
> > programs.
>
> How do you simulate reading 100TB of data spread across 3000 disks,
> selecting 10% of it using some criterion, then sorting and summarizing
> the result?
Focus on the slab allocator usage, instrument it, record a trace,
generate a statistical model that matches, and write a small
programm/kernel module that has the same allocation pattern. Then verify
this statistical workload still shows the same performance difference.
Easy: no
Doable: yes
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
