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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [patch] get_request starvation fix
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:13:45 +0100
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On February 16, 2002 08:32 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> However, contrary to my earlier guess, the request batching does
> make a measurable difference.  Changing the code so that we wake up
> a sleeper as soon as any request is freed costs maybe 30%
> on `dbench 64'.

Is this consistent with results on other IO benchmarks?

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Daniel
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