From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:45:37 -0500 Received: from dial-ctb05175.webone.com.au ([210.9.245.175]:7428 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:45:36 -0500 Message-ID: <3E3161D0.1060403@cyberone.com.au> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 02:54:56 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020913 Debian/1.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: rwhron@earthlink.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: big ext3 sequential write improvement in 2.5.51-mm1 gone in 2.5.53-mm1 References: <20030124044119.GA15252@rushmore> <20030123231117.29c8eb98.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: >rwhron@earthlink.net wrote: > >>qsbench creates heavy swap load and simultaneous ed build. (small gnu package >>"tar xzf/configure/make/make check"). >> > >[snip] >(Well, 2.5 _used_ to run it faster. The anticipatory scheduling patch makes >2.5's qsbench a little slower than 2.4. `qsbench -m 350' on `mem=256m'). > Some regressions are probably unavoidable, however a lot should be able to be tuned out. Nick