Re: NFS: Olaf's NFS v3 patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 00:18:36 +0000 (GMT)


> > 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?

2.1.74 without patches isnt that much faster than 2.1.126 (and on cached
stuff is slower). 2.1.74+olaf is definitely nicer

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