Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: >> I'd have to read his original statement, but eventfd doesn't build up state, >> so I think it qualifies. > > How about you guys battle it out by giving an example program usign the > interface? > > Here's a favourite really simple load of mine: > > - do the equivalent of "ls -lR" or "find /usr" as quickly as possible, > without playing "sort by the inode numbers" games (that don't work in > general, but are great for some filesystems) > > Do this on a directory that isn't newly created, but has had files > added and removed over time (so that the return order of "readdir()" > isn't dense and sorted in the inode tables already). The classic > example is "ls -l /usr/bin" or similar.
Sure, that's straight forward enough. We've all written little test apps for variants of this load in the past, anyway. (It was one of the first things I did for fibrils, Ingo had a variant for syslets which read small file data too, Chris has a syslet mode in his 'acp' util, etc.) I was going to send out a patch series pretty soon which includes cleanups (I think) of the sys_indirect() infrastructure. I can throw together this little test app along with that. - z -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
