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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.35-mm1
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:51:02 +0200
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On Monday 16 September 2002 09:15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A 4x performance regression in heavy dbench testing has been fixed. The
> VM was accidentally being fair to the dbench instances in page reclaim.
> It's better to be unfair so just a few instances can get ahead and submit
> more contiguous IO.  It's a silly thing, but it's what I meant to do anyway.

Curious... did the performance hit show anywhere other than dbench?

-- 
Daniel
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