Re: NFS: Olaf's NFS v3 patches

Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Tue, 3 Nov 1998 19:23:37 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> Just so nobody duplicates the work by accident, I've started merging the
> Olaf NFS v3 patches into the main tree. Firstly because it has some rpc
> scheduling fixes I want to eliminate from the 'NFS/tcp' mystery and
> secondly because I benched the new code versus the old using a 2.1.74 kernel
> and current 2.1.126 - the .74 setup is 3 times as fast 8)

No question about that. I was shocked at how poor read performance is
with 2.1.12x. What on earth was changed between 2.1.74 and the present to
account for this?

Steve

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