On 08/07/2013 06:40 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > One question before I look at the patches: Why don't you use fallocate() > in your application? The functionality you require seems to be pretty > similar to it - writing to an already allocated block is usually quick.
One problem I've seen is that it still costs you a fault per-page to get the PTEs in to a state where you can write to the memory. MADV_WILLNEED will do readahead to get the page cache filled, but it still leaves the pages unmapped. Those faults get expensive when you're trying to do a couple hundred million of them all at once. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
