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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:46:29 +0000
From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Organization: Grupo PIE
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To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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       Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] mmaped copy too slow?
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KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> at one point, I found the large file copy speed was different depending on
> the copy method.
> 
> I compared below method
>  - read(2) and write(2).
>  - mmap(2) x2 and memcpy.
>  - mmap(2) and write(2).
> 
> in addition, effect of fadvice(2) and madvice(2) is checked.
> 
> to a strange thing, 
>    - most faster method is read + write + fadvice.
>    - worst method is mmap + memcpy.

One thing you could also try is to pass MAP_POPULATE to mmap so that the 
page tables are filled in at the time of the mmap, avoiding a lot of 
page faults later.

Just my 2 cents,

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Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com

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