Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:15:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:15:42 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:20644 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 05:15:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 11:15:39 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jeff Garzik , Larry Kessler , Alan Cox , linux-kernel mailing list , "Andrew V. Savochkin" , Rusty Russell , Richard J Moore Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0 Message-ID: <20020929091539.GB1014@suse.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1495 Lines: 35 On Sat, Sep 28 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > i consider the VM and IO improvements one of the most important things > > that happened in the past 5 years - and it's definitely something that > > users will notice. Finally we have a top-notch VM and IO subsystem (in > > addition to the already world-class networking subsystem) giving > > significant improvements both on the desktop and the server - the jump > > from 2.4 to 2.5 is much larger than from eg. 2.0 to 2.4. > > Hey, _if_ people actually are universally happy with the VM in the current > 2.5.x tree, I'll happily call the dang thing 5.0 or whatever (just > kidding, but yeah, that would be a good enough reason to bump the major > number). Works For Me, at _least_ as well as 2.4.20-pre kernels. On my desktop machine it feels better. After a few days of uptime it's fairly easy to feel how well a kernel performs for that workload. And 2.5.39 is just smoother than current 2.4. > The block IO cleanups are important, and that was the major thing _I_ > personally wanted from the 2.5.x tree when it was opened. I agree with you > there. But I don't think they are major-number-material. Dang :-) -- Jens Axboe, rooting for 3.x - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/