Re: stat very inefficient

[Andrew Morton]

Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew wrote:
>  > hmm.  Here's a Pentium III profile ...
> 
>  What conclusion do your draw from this profile?

At a quick squint: we spend about 10% of total system time in those copy
functions.  If we halve their runtime (which would be good), we don't gain
much.

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