Re: Swap

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 18:01:54 EST


   From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
   Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 14:23:38 -0800
   
   Could you please explain further? What's more expensive
   than the copy?
   
TLB misses add to the cost, and this overhead is more than
"noise".

The Apache guys were playing with using mmap() for page contents
and it was always slower than read() into a static buffer.
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