Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:46:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:46:39 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:16768 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 10 Nov 2001 08:46:21 -0500 Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 05:44:45 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011110.054445.79069608.davem@redhat.com> To: anton@samba.org Cc: ak@suse.de, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: speed difference between using hard-linked and modular drives? From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011110.052917.41199152.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20011109073946.A19373@wotan.suse.de> <20011110155603.B767@krispykreme> <20011110.052917.41199152.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 05:29:17 -0800 (PST) Anton, are you bored? :-) If so, could you test out the patch below on your ppc64 box? It does the "page hash table via bootmem" thing. It is against 2.4.15-pre2 Erm, ignore this patch, it was incomplete, I'll diff it up properly. Sorry... Franks a lot, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - 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/