Re: 2.4.19rc2aa1

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Tue Jul 23 2002 - 10:03:44 EST


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:34:51PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> > Why are you not changing the EXTRAVERSION in your patch? I would make it
> > much easier to diffrentiate between kernels.
>
> I did that for me.
>
> # uname -r
> 2.4.19-rc2-aa1
> #
>
> It's working fine for some hours now. The EXTRAVERSION is the only thing
> that I changed, and -rc2-aa1 works just fine. But my bdflush seems - with
> the same values as from -rc1-aa2 - not to have 100% of the old efficiency
> any more.

I guess it's your userspace workload that changed, there are no
bdflush/vm/blkdev related changes between rc1aa2 and rc2aa1 that can
explain a change of behaviour in bdflush.

Andrea
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