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| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn | 21 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn index 37fe9c53..931fd0ee 100644 --- a/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/performance/io_system/binutils_ld_64ksec.mdwn @@ -27,10 +27,6 @@ extracted from cdf7c161ebd4a934c9e705d33f5247fd52975612 sources, 2010-10-24. On the idle grubber, this one repeatedly takes a few minutes wall time to complete successfully, contrary to a few seconds on a GNU/Linux system. -> On order of slowness may in fact be due to a Xen-specific issue, see -> [[xen_lseek]]. (But there are probably still one or two orders left, even -> without Xen.) - While processing the object files, there is heavy interaction with the relevant [[hurd/translator/ext2fs]] process. Running [[hurd/debugging/rpctrace]] on the testee shows that (primarily) an ever-repeating series of `io_seek` and @@ -38,17 +34,6 @@ the testee shows that (primarily) an ever-repeating series of `io_seek` and 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]] +As Samuel figured out later, this slowness may in fact be due to a Xen-specific +issue, see [[Xen_lseek]]. After the latter has been addressed, we can +re-evaluate this issue here. |