On 12/12/2014 07:23 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com> wrote: >> > >> > I ran bisection on trinity, rather than the kernel, and got the following >> > result: > Heh. That commit is pretty small, but I guess the effect of having a > number of regular files open and being used on the trinity loads can > be almost arbitrarily large. > > Where do those files get opened? What filesystem?
Right, it's virtio-9p. However, virtio-9p acts merely as a proxy to an underlying tmpfs - so while it's slow, I don't think it's way slower than the average disk backed ext4. Thanks, Sasha -- 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/
