Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call

From: Hui (billh@gnuppy.monkey.org)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 03:56:17 EST


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:40:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> There is no evidence for any such thing. Nor has any plausible
> theory been put forward as to why such an improvement should occur.

I find what you're saying a rather unbelievable given some of the
benchmarks I saw when the preempt patch started to floating around.

If you search linuxdevices.com for articles on preempt, you'll see a
claim about IO performance improvements with the patch. If somethings
changed then I'd like to know.

The numbers are here:
        http://kpreempt.sourceforge.net/

bill

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