Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264210AbTE0WHf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:07:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264212AbTE0WHf (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:07:35 -0400 Received: from pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com ([12.47.58.20]:54243 "EHLO pao-ex01.pao.digeo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264210AbTE0WHd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 18:07:33 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:18:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, m.c.p@wolk-project.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net, manish@storadinc.com, christian.klose@freenet.de, wli@holomorphy.com Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Message-Id: <20030527151830.40b3d281.akpm@digeo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030527202520.GN3767@dualathlon.random> References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <200305271952.34843.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <200305272004.02376.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <20030527182547.GG3767@dualathlon.random> <20030527200339.GI3767@dualathlon.random> <20030527202520.GN3767@dualathlon.random> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0pre1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 May 2003 22:20:47.0639 (UTC) FILETIME=[39024A70:01C3249E] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 18 Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > However the last numbers from Randy showed my tree going faster than 2.5 > with bonnie and tiotest so I think we don't need to worry and I would > probably not fix it in a different way in 2.4 even if it would mean a 1% > degradation. That could be because -aa quadruples the size of the VM readahead window. Changes such as that should be removed when assessing the performance impact of this particular patch. - 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/