From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:08:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:08:22 -0500 Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.12]:28156 "EHLO harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:08:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:22:12 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: pipe bandwidth 75% higher on 2.2 than recent 2.[45] Message-ID: <20030108052212.GA6540@rushmore> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: rwhron@earthlink.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LMbench bw_pipe on uniprocessor K6/2 says pipe bandwidth is about 75% higher on 2.2.23 than other recent kernels: kernel Pipe Bandwidth MB/sec ------------------ ------- 2.2.23 115.62 2.4.20-rmap15b 66.90 2.4.21-pre1 67.07 2.4.21-pre2-jam2 70.23 2.4.21-pre2aa2 67.44 2.5.51-mm2 60.71 2.5.54-mm3 64.86 Some other benchmarks at: http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/latest.html -- Randy Hron http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html