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Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

To: mingo@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 17:29:29 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Cox), sct@xxxxxxxxxx (Stephen C. Tweedie), hch@xxxxxxxxxx (Christoph Hellwig), davem@xxxxxxxxxx (David S. Miller), riel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101091743090.5932-100000@e2> from "Ingo Molnar" at Jan 09, 2001 05:48:32 PM
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> ever seen, this is why i quoted it - the talk was about block-IO
> performance, and Stephen said that our block IO sucks. It used to suck,
> but in 2.4, with the right patch from Jens, it doesnt suck anymore. )

Thats fine. Get me 128K-512K chunks nicely streaming into my raid controller
and I'll be a happy man

I don't have a problem with the claim that its not the per page stuff and 
plugging that breaks ll_rw_blk. If there is evidence contradicting the SGI
stuff it's very interesting


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