Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2

From: Fabio Riccardi (fabio@chromium.com)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 18:55:08 EST


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/
>
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> Jens Axboe
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