Re: [rfc] epoll interface change and glibc bits ...

[Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>]

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?

-- Jamie