From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 15:49:52 +0200 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 Message-ID: <20000925154952.O26339@suse.de> References: <20000925145856.A13011@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:10:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Sep 25 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > If you think I should delay those fixes to do something else I don't > > agree sorry. > > no, i never ment it. I find it very good that those half-done changes are The changes made were never half-done. The recent bug fixes have mainly been to remove cruft from the earlier elevator and fixing a bug where the elevator insert would screw up a bit. So I'd call that fine tuning or adjusting, not fixing half-done stuff. > cleaned up and the remaining bugs / performance problems are eliminated - Of course > the first reports about bad write performance came right after the > original elevator patches went in, about 6 months ago. And a new elevator was introduced some months ago to solve this. -- * Jens Axboe * SuSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/