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Date:   Sat, 4 Jul 2020 20:30:40 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] readfile(2): a new syscall to make open/read/close
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On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:02:46PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Here is a tiny new syscall, readfile, that makes it simpler to read
> small/medium sized files all in one shot, no need to do open/read/close.
> This is especially helpful for tools that poke around in procfs or
> sysfs, making a little bit of a less system load than before, especially
> as syscall overheads go up over time due to various CPU bugs being
> addressed.

Nice series, but you are 3 months late with it...  Next AFD, perhaps?

Seriously, the rationale is bollocks.  If the overhead of 2 extra
syscalls is anywhere near the costs of the real work being done by
that thing, we have already lost and the best thing to do is to
throw the system away and start with saner hardware.