Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:25:27 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4-mm1 |
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jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:31:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> This affects I/O scheduling potentially quite significantly. It is no >> longer the case that the kernel will submit pages for I/O in the order in >> which the application dirtied them. We instead submit them in file-offset >> order all the time. > > > Hi Andrew, > I have a feeling this change might significantly improve the external > sorting benchmark I emailed you ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/20/46 ). > I will try running it when I get a chance and let you know. It gives me > a good excuse to get 2.6 kernels working on my systems :-)
Hmm, what is happening with Roger Luethi's work lately?
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