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Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:39:55 +1000
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Page cache write performance issue
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Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:19:45PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> wrote:
> >
> >  So, any ideas what happened to 2.6.9?
> 
> Does reverting the below fix it up?

Reverting that one improves things slightly - I move up from
~4MB/sec to ~17MB/sec; thats just under a third of the 2.6.8
numbers I was seeing though, unfortunately.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan