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The splice() weekly news

Posted Apr 27, 2006 3:08 UTC (Thu) by dang (guest, #310)
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Jens's work on splice also led to an interesting bit of benchmarking involving Nick Piggin's lockless page cache patch. Check your favorite threaded version of LKML for today around 9:50 EST. More cool stuff.


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The splice() weekly news

Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:22 UTC (Thu) by cloose (subscriber, #5066) [Link]

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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=1146059631...

The splice() weekly news

Posted Apr 27, 2006 14:11 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Very interesting! Granted, it's a microbenchmark, but it still shows a place where Linux wasn't scaling as well as one would like. (In this case, it was a pretty dramatic fall off.)

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