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-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
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-02:
-
- <youpi> btw, we have a performance issue with xen
- <youpi> an lseek() call costs a huge lot
- <youpi> like 1ms
- <youpi> while the same costs just a few dozens µs with kvm
- <youpi> there's of course the cost of switching between ring3, ring0,
- ring1, ring0, ring3, but still
- <gianluca> oh, nice.
- <youpi> lseek is supposed to perform only a back&forth
- <youpi> and I don't observe disk activity, so it's not waiting for the disk
- to complete whatever atime change & such :)
- <youpi> it was mentioned that perhaps xen in hvm mode with pv drivers would
- be faster
- <youpi> thanks to the ring3/"1" switching being done by the processor
- <youpi> (and assuming npt)
- <gianluca> hm
- <gianluca> i'll look into that, sounds fun.
- <gianluca> :)
- <tschwinge> Here is a testcase:
- http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.html
-
-[[performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec]].
-
-Also see the simple testcases [[test-lseek.c]] and [[test-mach.c]].
-
-IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-11-05:
-
- <youpi> [test-mach.c is] mostly as a reference for the trap overhead
- <youpi> 0.56µs (xen) vs 0.48µs(kvm) on test-mach
- <youpi> 455µs(xen) vs 16µs(kvm) on test-lseek
- <youpi> that might simply be an issue in the RPC mechanism, which behaves
- badly with the xen memory management
- <youpi> yes, about 0.5ms for an lseek, that's quite high :)