Manfred (manfred@colorfullife.com) wrote:
> sys_poll spends around 1/2 of the execution time allocating / freeing a
> few bytes temporary memory.
> The attached patch tries to avoid these allocation by using the stack -
> usually only a few bytes are needed, kmalloc is used for the rest.
> The result: one poll of stdin is down from 1736 cpu ticks to 865 cpu
> ticks (Pentium II/350 SMP, SMP kernel)
Tested with poll() microbenchmark from
http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/Poller_bench.html
time in microsec to find a single active pipe among N pipes
on a 650 MHz dual Pentium III using poll():
number of pipes
kernel 100 1000 10000
---------------------------------
2.4.0-t10pre4 49 1184 14660
2.4.0 48 1162 14702
2.4.0-pp 48 1103 14205
2.4.0-pp is with Manfred's patch. Seems to be a 4-6% improvement
for large numbers of pipes, no change for 100 pipes.
Hope that was an appropriate test.
- Dan
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