Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

[Andrew Morton]

Ion Badulescu wrote:
> 
> 2.4.1-pre10+zerocopy, using read()/write():     18.3%-29.6% CPU         * why so much variance?

The variance is presumably because of the naive read/write
implementation.  It sucks in 16 megs and writes out out again.
With a 100 megabyte file you'll get aliasing effects between
the sampling interval and the client's activity.

You will get more repeatable results using smaller files.  I'm
just sending /usr/local/bin/* ten times, with

./zcc -s otherhost -c /usr/local/bin/* -n10 -N2 -S

Maybe that 16 meg buffer should be shorter...  Yes, making it
smaller smooths things out.

Heh, look at this.  It's a simple read-some, send-some loop.
Plot CPU utilisation against the transfer size:

Size           %CPU

256             31
512             25
1024            22
2048            18
4096            17
8192            16
16384           18
32768           19
65536           21
128k            22
256k            22.5

8192 bytes is best.

I've added the `-b' option to zcc to set the transfer size.  Same
URL.

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