Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 02 Jan 2001 10:49:38 -0500 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) |
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On Friday, December 29, 2000 06:58:01 PM +0100 Daniel Phillips <phillips@innominate.de> wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote: >> >> BTW, the last anon space mapping patch I sent also works on test13-pre5. >> The block_truncate_page fix does help my patch, since I have bdflush >> locking pages ( thanks Marcelo ) > > Yes it does, but the little additional patch you posted no longer > applies. Your patch is suffering badly under pre5 here, reducing > throughput from around 10 MB/sec to 5-6 MB/sec, and highly variable. If > you're not seeing this you should probably try to get a few others to > run it. >
The additional patch I sent (for skipping writepage calls on the first loop in page_launder) was applied to test13-pre5, in a slightly better form. So, you'll either need to benchmark in pre4, or make a reversed version for pre5.
Porting to the prerelease now ;-)
-chris
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