Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932124AbWCaXRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932146AbWCaXRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:19 -0500 Received: from mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.201]:65421 "EHLO mail20.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932124AbWCaXRS (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:17:18 -0500 From: Con Kolivas To: ck@vds.kolivas.org Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Staircase test patch Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:17:08 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Thorsten Will , linux list References: <200603312307.58507.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060331213106.GA6905@lliwnetsroht.news.arcor.de> In-Reply-To: <20060331213106.GA6905@lliwnetsroht.news.arcor.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604010917.09413.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 862 Lines: 29 On Saturday 01 April 2006 07:31, Thorsten Will wrote: > On Friday 31 March 2006 23:07 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > >Hi Thorsten et al > > Hi, Con. > > >Thorsten could you please test to see if this fixes the problem for you? > > Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. > > Against a bash loop: > |# dd bs=1M count=2048 /dev/null > |2048+0 records in > |2048+0 records out > |2147483648 bytes transferred in 35.497603 seconds (60496582 bytes/sec) > > Yes! Success! And the crowd goes wild! :-) > > I think you finally nailed it. Thank you so much! No, thank _you_ for bringing it to my attention and testing :) Cheers, Con - 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/