Re: [RFC PATCH] fuse: support splice() reading from fuse device

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:07:23PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > It says nothing at all, in short. You need to have a real source, and a 
> > real destination. Not some empty filesystem and /dev/null destination.
> 
> Sure, I will do that.  It's just a lot harder to measure the effects
> on hardware I have access to, where the CPU speed is just damn too
> large compared to I/O speed.

Try running a CPU burner on all the cores.  Something that's low priority,
so it'll be preempted by FUSE, and doesn't consume much cache.

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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