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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 19:12:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote:
>
> It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48
> on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE).

This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would say "fixing")
the bdflush synchronous wait point.

No actual code was harmed in the making of this improvement.

But I will take full credit anyway.

		Linus

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