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In article <7372@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, af@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Alessandro Forin) writes:
> We do have internal test programs for Mach IPC.
> Here are the results I get right_now on my pmax (multiuser, X11
> running, my emacs & news programs in the background, some 20 assorted
> systems servers for the fancy CMU environment).
> 
> binding to host testarossa
> Test          syscall: Iters:10000      E:228      U:31       S:197     
> Test        localLoop: Iters:10000      E:0        U:0        S:0       
> Test        localNull: Iters:10000      E:0        U:0        S:0       
> Test         localAdd: Iters:10000      E:16       U:15       S:0       
> Test       localBigIn: Iters:10000      E:203      U:203      S:0       
> Test      localBigOut: Iters:10000      E:203      U:203      S:0       
> Test    localBigInOut: Iters:10000      E:390      U:390      S:0       
> Test       remoteNull: Iters:10000      E:1985     U:15       S:1125    
> Test        remoteAdd: Iters:10000      E:2062     U:141      S:985     
> Test      remoteBigIn: Iters:10000      E:2797     U:172      S:1234    
> Test     remoteBigOut: Iters:10000      E:2016     U:141      S:1000    
> Test   remoteBigInOut: Iters:10000      E:2765     U:390      S:1266    
> 
> The localXXX entries are for local procedure calls, remoteXXX
> are for the same operation invoked on a server process.
> Add just adds two numbers, BigIn passes (by value) as IN parameter a 
> 200bytes string, BigOut returns it (by value), BigInOut does both.
> All tests ran 10000 times, Elapsed/User/System times are as given,
> e.g. a null RPC takes 200 microseconds, elapsed.

Thanks.  Just a couple of questions...

Do the localXXX entries refer to inter-address space/intra-machine
procedure calls?  Do the remoteXXX entries refer to inter-machine
procedure calls?

Do the BigInOut procedures touch their arguments?

Anthony
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