From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:51:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:51:06 -0400 Received: from chromium11.wia.com ([207.66.214.139]:58636 "EHLO neptune.kirkland.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 29 May 2001 19:50:53 -0400 Message-ID: <3B1436DC.60869CFB@chromium.com> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:55:08 -0700 From: Fabio Riccardi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: "Leeuw van der, Tim" , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2 In-Reply-To: <3B13542A.5DBA3903@chromium.com> <20010529121954.J26871@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org yes I get a performance improvement of about 5% could you port your patches to the 2.4.5-ac4 kernel? I'd love to see if the ac improvements and yours add to each other. Thanks, - Fabio Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, May 29 2001, Fabio Riccardi wrote: > > "Leeuw van der, Tim" wrote: > > > > > But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which > > > changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I > > > don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then it's > > > a change in the 2.4.5-ac2 changelog. If it is as fast, it is one of the > > > changes in the 2.4.5-ac1 changelog. > > > > 2.4.5-ac1 crashed on my machine, vanilla 2.4.5 worked but slower than 2.4.2 > > > > 2.4.5-ac2 is _a lot_ faster than all the 2.4.4 and of vanilla 2.4.5 > > > > please notice that I have a 4G machine, dual proc, and I run a very > > memory/IO/CPU intensive test, so your mileage may vary with different > > applications. > > Could you try the 4GB I/O patches and see if they boost performance of > such cases? > > *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.5/ > > -- > Jens Axboe > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/