On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:25:27PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > This is a bit of a surprising result, since in my testing in the > past, copy_{to/from}_user() is a major consumer of CPU time (50% > of a CPU core at 1GB/s). What backing filesystem did you test on? While we are at it, was cp(1) using read(2)/write(2) loop or was it using something else (sendfile(2), for example)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html