Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-26,: Re: [PATCH] 2.2.17pre7 VM enhancement Re: I/O performance on

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

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 1 Jul 2000 09:22:08 -0300 (BRT)

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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.

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