Andrew Morton wrote on Wednesday, March 09, 2005 5:34 PM > What are these percentages? Total CPU time? The direct-io stuff doesn't > look too bad. It's surprising that tweaking the direct-io submission code > makes much difference.
Percentage is relative to total kernel time. There are three DIO functions showed up in the profile: __blockdev_direct_IO 4.97% dio_bio_end_io 2.70% dio_bio_complete 1.20% > hm. __blockdev_direct_IO() doesn't actually do much. I assume your damn > compiler went and inlined direct_io_worker() on us. We are using gcc version 3.4.3. I suppose I can finger point gcc ? :-P - Ken - 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/
