From: jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 08:40:17 -0500
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:31:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   This affects I/O scheduling potentially quite significantly.  It is no
>   longer the case that the kernel will submit pages for I/O in the order in
>   which the application dirtied them.  We instead submit them in file-offset
>   order all the time.

Hi Andrew,
    I have a feeling this change might significantly improve the external
sorting benchmark I emailed you ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/20/46 ).
I will try running it when I get a chance and let you know.  It gives me
a good excuse to get 2.6 kernels working on my systems :-)

Thanks,

Jim

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