Re: 2.1.76, nfs client, and memory fragmentation

Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
05 Jan 1998 13:31:37 -0600


> You tweaked my curiosity, so I de-inlined copy_to/from_user and did
> some comparisons. Bottom line is that on my machine it doesn't seem
> to care either way.. performance stayed the same. I did Bonnie and
> some network throughput tests in four configs. I'm only posting the
> Bonnie runs in the interest of brevity.

ext2 file system code uses memcpy_fromfs to copy blocks, not
copy_to/from_user.

Miguel.