Hi Chris, On Tue, Aug-12-2014 at 07:12:33 PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Apelete, > > On Mon, Jul 21 2014, Apelete Seketeli wrote: > > It should help reduce the impact of DMA preparation overhead on the SD > > card performance. > > Did you do any benchmarking to check that this is true? (If so, it'd > be good to note what performance change you saw in the commit message.)
I actually did a few quick benchmarks, posted the results in the cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/21/11. As you can see the improvement is measurable, although not significant with zcat. Cheers. -- Apelete -- 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/