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

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> 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"?

Waiting on dirty buffers to sync.