Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271557AbTGQWTf (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:19:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271593AbTGQWRm (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:17:42 -0400 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([80.190.48.67]:43785 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271585AbTGQWQw (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:16:52 -0400 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Mason Subject: Re: 2.4.22pre6aa1 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 00:30:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20030717102857.GA1855@dualathlon.random> <200307180013.38078.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> In-Reply-To: <200307180013.38078.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307180024.17523.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1759 Lines: 61 On Friday 18 July 2003 00:13, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Thursday 17 July 2003 12:28, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Hi Andrea, > > > Only in 2.4.22pre6aa1: 00_elevator-lowlatency-1 > > Only in 2.4.22pre6aa1: 00_elevator-read-reservation-axboe-2l-1 > > Hmm, this is now my first day testing out .22-pre6 and .22-pre6aa1 with the > new I/O stall fixes. At a first look & feel it's very good, but I've > noticed a side effect (if it can be called so): > > VMware4 Workstation > ------------------- > > 2.4.22-pre[6|6aa1]: ~ 1 minute 02 seconds from: Start this virtual machine > ... 2.4.22-pre2 : ~ 30 seconds from: Start this virtual > machine ... > > ... to start up Windows 2000 Professional completely. > > Well, personally I don't care about the slowdown of vmware startup with a > VM but there may be many other slowdows?! hmmm: 2.4.22-pre[6|6aa1]: ------------------- root@codeman:[/] # dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/largefile bs=16384 count=131072 131072+0 records in 131072+0 records out 2147483648 bytes transferred in 128.765686 seconds (16677453 bytes/sec) 2.4.22-pre2: ------------ root@codeman:[/] # dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/largefile bs=16384 count=131072 131072+0 records in 131072+0 records out 2147483648 bytes transferred in 98.489331 seconds (21804226 bytes/sec) both kernels freshly rebooted. Machine: -------- Celeron 1,3GHz 512MB RAM 2x IDE (UDMA100) 60/40 GB 1GB SWAP, 512MB on each disk (same priority) ext3fs (data=ordered) XFree 4.3 WindowMaker 0.82-CVS ciao, Marc - 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/