Re: COPY_DELAY could perform worse than COPY_NONE

2011-10-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sergio López, le Tue 04 Oct 2011 09:54:55 +0200, a écrit : > In objects where copy attribute is MEMORY_OBJECT_COPY_DELAY, for every > read operation (usually done with vm_copy) all pages in the source > object are write protected to be able to use copy-on-write > optimizations. The cost for this op

COPY_DELAY could perform worse than COPY_NONE

2011-10-04 Thread Sergio López
Hi, While compiling stuff to stress my test machine, I've noticed ext2fs was eating a lot of CPU time, specially when running ranlib or objcopy. Further investigations showed that most of this time was expended in this fragment of vm_object.c:vm_object_copy_delayed: --- queue_iterate(&src

IRC meeting 2011-10-05

2011-10-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wednesday we meet as usual at 19:00 UTC in channel #hurd on irc.freenode.net, to discuss various Hurd-related topics. Anyone interested in Hurd development is invited to join us, and also to propose topics and ask questions :-) -antrik-