Adaptec 1542 Kernel tuning with 386/ix

[Larry Snyder]

pcg at cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:


>But you don't teel us the crucial details -- did you read from the raw
>device, the block device, or from the filesystem? In the latter two
>cases, how did you defeat the read-aheading. or ensured it was used, and
>in the last ase, did you unmount/remount the filesystem before each read
>to be sure to defeat the caching?

File system and cache was cleared in all the benchmarks - I posted
the source code for others to see exactly what was going on.


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