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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:25:27 -0800
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jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> 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 :-)

Hmm, what is happening with Roger Luethi's work lately?

Have there been any patches for use once in this case?
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