On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > > And the lower size of the structure will help to reduce the amount of
> > > > memory transfered to userspace. I just saw that adding the extra "obj"
> > > > member lowered performance of about 15% with crazy tests like Ben's
> > > > pipetest. This because it creates, on my machine, more than 400000 events
> > > > per second, and saving memory bandwidth on such conditions is a must. With
> > > > the "more human" http test performance are about the same.
> > >
> > > I'd be quite surprised if 400,000 word/sec of memory bandwidth can
> > > explain a 15% time difference, especially considering all the other
> > > things that are done to communicate over a pipe (wakeups etc).
> >
> > Jamie, they were 16 bytes * 400000, and the token passed through the pipe
> > was 12 bytes.
>
> However, it's 4 bytes (1 word) * 400000 _difference_ between the two
> tests, yes?
Yep, the problem is that the "tool" used to measure ( Ben's pipetest ) on
my machine has a variance of about 35% and this makes every measure prety
fuzzy.
- Davide
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