Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 10:37:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: broken VM in 2.4.10-pre9 |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > However, at the same time I'd really like to hear about improved > > behaviour, not just "feels the same". And certainly not "(maybe even > > worse.." > > Hm, sorry for that. But that's what I see. Maybe the problem is now on a > different field.
Heh. I wasn't blaming you. The code obviously leaves something to be desired, still.
> BTW: I tried Andrea's brand new patch and have to admit it has a _big_ > performance gain, though I understand you dislike the design very much.
I only dislike one aspect of it, not the whole patch. Andrea has spent a lot of time doing tuning, which is hugely important for real-world workloads. I also suspect from previous patches that he increases read-ahead aggressively etc.
I'll take a look,
Linus
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