From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:04:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:04:32 -0500 Received: from fw.SuSE.com ([202.58.118.35]:12536 "EHLO linux.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:04:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 19:10:39 -0800 From: Jens Axboe To: David Mansfield Cc: lkml Subject: Re: blk-7 fails to boot (against 2.4.0-test10) Message-ID: <20001102191039.B17975@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <3A01C8B2.23D6E9C4@dm.ultramaster.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A01C8B2.23D6E9C4@dm.ultramaster.com>; from lkml@dm.ultramaster.com on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:04:02PM -0500 X-OS: Linux 2.4.0-test10 i686 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 02 2000, David Mansfield wrote: > Hi Jens. > > I wanted to try out blk-7 to see if it cured the abysmal I/O > performance on 2.4.0-test10, but it won't boot on my system. Could you try blk-8? *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.0-test10/blk-8.bz2 It also has other fixes over blk-7 (saves the linear back scan when a buffer can't be merged, simple aging of requests in queue, and more "fair" accouting of merges) -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/