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From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:10:12 -0800
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On Friday 14 November 2003 11:08 am, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > - Several ext2 and ext3 allocator fixes.  These need serious testing on
> > big SMP.
>
> OK, ext3 survived a swatting on the 16-way as well. It's still slow as
> snot, but it does work ;-) No changes from before, methinks.
>
> Diffprofile for kernbench (-j) from ext2 to ext3 on mm3
>
>      27022    16.3% total
>      24069    53.3% default_idle
>        583     2.4% page_remove_rmap
>        539   248.4% fd_install
>        478   388.6% __blk_queue_bounce

What driver are you using ? Why are you bouncing ?

Thanks,
Badari