On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:42:36 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 04:27:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > [1] Though admittedly the one in RHEL deviates from upstream > > > as it contains performance enhancements that were vetoed from > > > upstream acceptance due to it being "deprecated". > > > > What enhancements are they? > > Hmm, actually it seems I was mistaken, we didn't merge those after all, > we seem to be shipping what was upstream in 2.6.9/2.6.18. > > The patches I was thinking of were a bunch of optimisations for higher > throughput from someone at Intel iirc. Ken Chen maybe? Ah, OK. Ken had an initial set of patches which weren't very popular. Months later, he had a second set which did get merged into mainline, but they broke, so that code is presently mucking up fs/block_dev.c, inside #if 0, awaiting possible repair. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
