Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 10:57:54 +0200 | | From | "Francis Moreau" <> | | Subject | Re: question about splice performance | |
Hello,
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
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> If you drop caches you are not measuring splice speed.
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> Use ramfs for your tests (guarantees data is in cache) instead.
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So it seems that the gain when using splice to copy a file into another file
is very limited. Maybe that's the reason why cp is still using read/write...
Also splice-cp uses 2 calls to splice syscall in a loop. So it end up doing a
lot of syscalls. Maybe using sendfile instead of is better.
Also2, since splice is a generalized pipe, it might be better to create to
processes, one writing to the pipe and the other one reading to have better
workflow.
That said I also see some use cases where splice could be more useful,
specially when one of the file descriptor is actually a device: one the write
side of the pipes a device could write some data while on the other side of
the pipe a process can empty the pipe by writing the data to a file.
Are there any plans to improve splice interface to be used by drivers ?
Thanks.
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Francis
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