Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:29:29 +0000 (GMT)

> ever seen, this is why i quoted it - the talk was about block-IO
> performance, and Stephen said that our block IO sucks. It used to suck,
> but in 2.4, with the right patch from Jens, it doesnt suck anymore. )

Thats fine. Get me 128K-512K chunks nicely streaming into my raid controller
and I'll be a happy man

I don't have a problem with the claim that its not the per page stuff and
plugging that breaks ll_rw_blk. If there is evidence contradicting the SGI
stuff it's very interesting

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