Re: [Lse-tech] 7.52 second kernel compile

[Jeff Garzik]

Theodore Tso wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:34:34PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
>>>And this *without* the dcache_lock?  Hmm.  So you are saying there
>>>may still be room for improvement?
>>>
>>I tried the dcache lock patches but found it hard to see a difference,
>>for us the mm stuff still seems to be the bottleneck.
>>
>
>Try the patch which gets rid of the BKL in ext2_get_block() --- if you
>don't have that, let me know, I've got one kicking around that mostly
>works except I haven't validated that it does the right thing if
>quotas are enabled.
>

Is yours different from what's in 2.5.x?

    Jeff