Re: measuring swap partition speed

On Thu, 21 Dec 2023, at 17:32, Mark Millard wrote:
> [For this message I'm replying to just the one point because I
> expect that it is rather important to your context.]

> swapfile write requires the write request to come through the filesystem
> write path, which might require the filesystem to allocate more memory
> and read some data. E.g. it is known that any ZFS write request
> allocates memory, and that write request on large UFS file might require
> allocating and reading an indirect block buffer to find the block number
> of the written block, if the indirect block was not yet read.

Are nfs writes the same as a "write request through the filesystem write path" ?
If not the same, then the same deleterious effect in the context?

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