Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:59:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:59:59 -0400 Received: from [195.223.140.120] ([195.223.140.120]:27515 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:59:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:03:44 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Thunder from the hill Cc: Tobias Ringstrom , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1 Message-ID: <20020723150344.GN1116@dualathlon.random> References:

Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 28 On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:34:51PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > Why are you not changing the EXTRAVERSION in your patch? I would make it > > much easier to diffrentiate between kernels. > > I did that for me. > > # uname -r > 2.4.19-rc2-aa1 > # > > It's working fine for some hours now. The EXTRAVERSION is the only thing > that I changed, and -rc2-aa1 works just fine. But my bdflush seems - with > the same values as from -rc1-aa2 - not to have 100% of the old efficiency > any more. I guess it's your userspace workload that changed, there are no bdflush/vm/blkdev related changes between rc1aa2 and rc2aa1 that can explain a change of behaviour in bdflush. Andrea - 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/