Re: [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
>> >Testing dbench with 48 clients, I got 17MB/s with 2.2.17pre9, and 21MB/sec
>> >with 2.2.17pre9 + this patch.
>> 		 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> I spend an relevat effort to take all the patches separated and ordered,
>> so I'd appreciate if you could avoid to mix them.
>
>Andrea, I'd appreciate it if you could quit
>the obvious flamebaits and start looking at
>2.2 VM in a serious way.

???

>Also, 2.2 is supposed to be a stable kernel.
>We cannot make any tradeoff where we lose some
>stability for a performance gain.

Which patch are you referring about when you say "lose some stability"?

Andrea