Subject: Re: SMP re-entrancy in kernel drivers/"bottom half?"
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/24/2005 09:47:04
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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:34:47AM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
> Re the poor showing in the large-IO benchmarks: didn't Bill Studenmund
> recently (circa Jan 26) fix a bug whereby each fsync() ends up syncing
> the entire disk?  That could easily explain the poor results on
> I/O-bound tests, but I dont know if the problem was in 2.0, or just
> -current.

That was a bug that was only in -current for a few days.

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Dan.
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