Re: Are Linux pipes slower than the FreeBSD ones ?

[Andi Kleen]

Eric Dumazet <dada1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> This benchmarek mostly stress scheduler AFAIK, not really pipe() code...
>
> Lot of context switches...

The recent mysql sysbench benchmark where they also won was also such
a (somewhat unrealistic) scheduler benchmark with a lot of over
scheduling. Just speculating here, but perhaps the context switch got
slower recently?

-Andi
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