LMbench bw_pipe on uniprocessor K6/2 says pipe
bandwidth is about 75% higher on 2.2.23 than other
recent kernels:
kernel Pipe Bandwidth MB/sec
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2.2.23 115.62
2.4.20-rmap15b 66.90
2.4.21-pre1 67.07
2.4.21-pre2-jam2 70.23
2.4.21-pre2aa2 67.44
2.5.51-mm2 60.71
2.5.54-mm3 64.86
Some other benchmarks at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/latest.html
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Randy Hron
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html