From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 16:11:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: mingo@elte.hu Subject: Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 In-Reply-To: <20000925154952.O26339@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Linus Torvalds , Rik van Riel , Roger Larsson , MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. sorry i did not mean to offend you - unadjusted and unfixed stuff hanging around in the kernel for months is 'half done' for me. > > 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. and these are still not solved in the vanilla kernel, as recent complaints on l-k prove. Ingo -- 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/