Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

Bill Huey
2003-02-24T08:49:21Z

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:40:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There is no evidence for any such thing. Nor has any plausible
> theory been put forward as to why such an improvement should occur.

I find what you're saying a rather unbelievable given some of the
benchmarks I saw when the preempt patch started to floating around.

If you search linuxdevices.com for articles on preempt, you'll see a
claim about IO performance improvements with the patch. If somethings
changed then I'd like to know.

The numbers are here:
http://kpreempt.sourceforge.net/

bill