linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <20090324170559.1667c847@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:59 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:03:53 -0700
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org> wrote:

> 
> I remember early in the 2.6.x days there was a lot of focus on making
> interactive performance good, and for a long time it was.  But this
> I/O problem has been around for a *long* time now... What happened?
> Do not many people run into this daily?  Do all the filesystem
> hackers run with special mount options to mitigate the problem?
> 

the people that care use my kernel patch on ext3 ;-)
(or the userland equivalent tweak in /etc/rc.local)



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