[linux-cifs-client] [patch] cifs: use add_to_page_cache_lru

Nick Piggin npiggin at suse.de
Thu Mar 18 19:13:34 MDT 2010


On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:43:17PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Seems reasonable to me (also Shaggy acked this).  Any idea how likely
> it would affect performance (and would thus need to run through some
> simple iozone and cthon (timing mode) or similar perf testing)

It should positively affect LRU ordering, and CPU efficiency, but both
such a tiny amount it should be in the noise. It wouldn't affect IO
patterns (except as a side effect of slightly different pagecache
reclaim, but again in the noise).

I wouldn't worry about benchmarking it.



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