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| author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-09-01 09:27:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2011-09-01 09:27:33 +0200 |
| commit | 3e7472b3d54853389cd8a17475901fbef976ef18 (patch) | |
| tree | fdd31020d36728fe3c2059fa93a9dfcf7b2c2e87 /open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn | |
| parent | 688fc9d79713c183c0b7ff2bc1717525c773bee9 (diff) | |
IRC.
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diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn index 79c2300f..359d5fee 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn @@ -33,3 +33,18 @@ the testee shows that (primarily) an ever-repeating series of `io_seek` and `io_read` is being processed. Running the testee on GNU/Linux with strace shows the equivalent thing (`_llseek`, `read`) -- but Linux' I/O system isn't as slow as the Hurd's. + +--- + +IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-09-01: + + <youpi> hum, f951 does myriads of 71->io_seek_request (32768 0) = 0 32768 + <youpi> no wonder it's slow + <youpi> unfortunately that's also what it does on linux, the system call is + just less costly + <youpi> apparently gfortran calls io_seek for, like, every token of the + sourced file + <youpi> (fgetpos actually, but that's the same) + <youpi> and it is indeed about 10 times slower under Xen for some reason + +[[!tag open_issue_xen]] |