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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: reaim - 2.6.3-mm1 IO performance down.
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Cliff White <cliffw@osdl.org> wrote:
>
>  > Thanks.  You could try reverting adaptive-lazy-readahead.patch.  If it is
>  > not that I'd be suspecting CPU scheduler changes.  Do you have uniprocessor
>  > test results?
> 
>  I have them for 2.6.3-mm3, am re-running 2.6.3-mm1 right now.
>  Gross results are within 1%, but looking at the detail, i do see badness,

OK, I'll do the bsearch.  Again.  Could you please tell me what would be an
appropriate reaim command line with which to reproduce this?