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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Further aacraid work
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:38:42 -0400
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:54:38PM -0400, Salyzyn, Mark wrote:
> And I might add, undoing the entropy to result in the descending page
> list (but that is the forth time I've said this).
> 
> I ran heavy sequential load overnight and continued to have this
> characteristic when taking snapshots of command SG lists. The average SG
> element size statistically was 4168 bytes.

What do the stats look like with the patch Andrew Morton (I think) posted
to reverse the page order from the allocator ?