Re: The cause of the "VM" performance problem with 2.4.X

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:49:58 -0300 (BRST)

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
>
> > Note that the real fix is to make the block devices use the page cache.
> > Andrea has patches, but it's a 2.5.x thing.
>
> Linus, could you please make a statement when 2.5.x is likely to start?
> A lot of people wonder this and we all know you have some sort of plan
> laid out. Tell us about it:-)

2.4.8-pre* seems to have been the turning point where
experimental stuff started getting introduced ;)

Rik

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