Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751452AbWDAAWy (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:22:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751456AbWDAAWy (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:22:54 -0500 Received: from omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com ([144.140.93.195]:51304 "EHLO omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751452AbWDAAWx (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:22:53 -0500 Message-ID: <442DC7DB.10406@bigpond.net.au> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 11:22:51 +1100 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060313) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: ck@vds.kolivas.org, Thorsten Will , linux list Subject: Re: [ck] Re: Staircase test patch References: <200603312307.58507.kernel@kolivas.org> <20060331213106.GA6905@lliwnetsroht.news.arcor.de> <200604010917.09413.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200604010917.09413.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at omta05sl.mx.bigpond.com from [147.10.133.38] using ID pwil3058@bigpond.net.au at Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:22:51 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 34 Con Kolivas wrote: > 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 :) Should I apply this to staircase in PlugSched? Peter -- Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce - 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/