Divacky Roman writes: > > > On a 700MHz K7 machine this doubles the speed of > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1 count=1000000 > > > > > > This roughly translates to shaving 2usec of each read/write syscall. > > I tried it (no problem yet) and did a bit testing... > (cp -R /sys/ /tmp/s, dd if=/dev/zero of=smth count=1000000, cp smth smth1 and > so on) > > and it seems like its actually a bit slower (but everything works properly) - > did I get anything wrong? should the results be a bit better (I did three run > s > every time of each test) > You evidently missed the point that this change benefits accesses to _devices_. All your tests are using files. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org garyj[at]denx.deReceived on Mon Nov 08 2004 - 17:15:03 UTC
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