Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:58:53 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: More on 2.2.18pre2aa2 |
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:44:21PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Michael T. Babcock wrote: > > >Considering there are a lot of people still using 2.0.x because they find it > >more stable than the 2.2.x series, doesn't it make sense to give this > >scalability to people who are already running SMP boxes on 2.2.x and who may > >decide to use ReiserFS? > > Note that the thing isn't specific to reiserfs. All fs and networking (not > firewalling) would benfit from that.
networking does it for a few kernel releases now, and it was a big improvement in some benchmarks (probably not that much on real world load)
> > My point is that it's more productive to solve the last 2.4.x troubles > (that still corrupts d'Itri's fs in test8) than to try to achieve better > scalability performance with 2.2.x 8).
Given, but adding the unlock_kernel() does not really need much effort, it is a very cheap (programmer time wise) optimization.
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