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    Phoronix: Linux 4.16 Can Be A Lot Faster For Small I/O Activity

    The well known FIO benchmark saw a +244% improvement in read bandwidth for one test case as a result of one change to be found in Linux 4.16...

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  • #2
    Originally posted by phoronix View Post

    Jeff Layout
    Autocorrect victim? His name is Jeff Layton

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    • #3
      Originally posted by mlau View Post

      Autocorrect victim? His name is Jeff Layton
      Whoops, yeah. Fixed, thanks.
      Michael Larabel
      https://www.michaellarabel.com/

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      • #4
        but only if Intel Meltdown and Spectre mitigation do not ruin your performance?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by mlau View Post

          Autocorrect victim? His name is Jeff Layton
          At least it wasn't Layoff

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          • #6
            HDD will take advantages from this improvement?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by rene View Post
              but only if Intel Meltdown and Spectre mitigation do not ruin your performance?
              Even then it will be some improvement.

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              • #8
                Wow this is quite huge. I'm excited to see the real world performance impact!

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                • #9
                  However, when somebody presents something like this, I'm very very suspicious of the "change" and hope the reviewers are suspicious as well.

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                  • #10
                    Hm. May be KDE startup time will get better with that.

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