Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.18-rc3-jam1

[J.A. Magallon]

Hi.

First of all, I never expected this tniny patch collection would origin
such "rivers of e-ink"...
Please, have always present that I can have made some mistake in my
offset re-engineering. But the fact that it at least survives the tests
is good. 

On 20020224 [e-mail] wrote:
>2.4.18-rc2-jam1   128  0.80  5.72%    0.190       3.68  0.00000  0.00000  14
>2.4.18-rc4-jam1   128  0.80  5.72%    5.025    6734.19  0.07560  0.00000  14

This is really strange. I have looked at my patches and are the same. What
changed in mainlaine ??

[...]
>
>Below is a snippet of tiobench on random writes.  The rc4-jam1
>included the entire patchset, whereas rc2-jam1 had patches with
>the first two digits < 20.
>

So rc2-jam1 is running without the ide-update (I noticed your system is IDE),
but also without irqrate.
I will reorder the patches so you can apply 0*, 1* and 3* without problems,
then scsi-ide updates. And you can try with/out the ide update.
Do not see what can be related with latency in >=20*, apart from ide and
irqrate...

I do not know if you are already doing this, but I will skip the bproc part
for thins tests. It pollutes system calls with hooks for network, so it can
be hurting in many ways.

I will release a -jam2 with latest vm-27 and reordering the patches.

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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