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LAT_SYSCALL(8) LMBENCH LAT_SYSCALL(8) NAME lat_syscall - time simple entry into the operating system SYNOPSIS lat_syscall [ -P <parallelism> ] [ -W <warmups> ] [ -N <repetitions> ] null|read|write|stat|fstat|open [ file ] DESCRIPTION null measures how long it takes to do getppid(). We chose getppid() be- cause in all UNIX variants we are aware of, it requires a round-trip to/from kernel space and the actual work required inside the kernel is small and bounded. read measures how long it takes to read one byte from /dev/zero. Note that some operating systems do not support /dev/zero. write times how long it takes to write one byte to /dev/null. This is useful as a lower bound cost on anything that has to interact with the operating system. stat measures how long it takes to stat() a file whose inode is already cached. fstat measures how long it takes to fstat() an open file whose inode is already cached. open measures how long it takes to open() and then close() a file. OUTPUT Output format is Null syscall: 67 microseconds ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Funding for the development of this tool was provided by Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. SEE ALSO lmbench(8). AUTHOR Carl Staelin and Larry McVoy Comments, suggestions, and bug reports are always welcome. (c)1994 Larry McVoy $Date$ LAT_SYSCALL(8)
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