2.6.16 to 2.6.17 read performance change

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:27:18AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> We did a bit more investigation into the cause of the big performance
> jump that I presented about at OLS, that occurred between 2.6.16 and
> 2.6.17.  It looks like there was an NFS patch submitted by Trond a long
> time ago to fix the performance issue, that only recently was
> incorporated into the mainline kernel.

OK, neat, makes sense.

So, out of curiosity--did you just do a binary search for that patch?
Were you able to automate the search, or did someone have to kick off
each build and test?

--b.