Would be interesting to run
blockdev --setra 1024 /dev/hdXX
here. We're getting more idle time with 2.5 and that can only
be due to disk wait - the IO scheduler changes. This might make a
small difference.
> ...
> Removal of per-cpu pages patch does not seem to have been detrimental to contest
> benchmarks at least - perhaps this is responsible for the noload being better now?
Well that code is still there. I'd expect a very small benefit from it
in this testing.
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