The New Linux Speed Trick

Brainsur quotes a story saying " Linux kernel 2.6 introduces improved IO scheduling that can increase speed -- "sometimes by 1,000 percent or more, [more] often by 2x" -- for standard desktop workloads, and by as much as 15 percent on many database workloads, according to Andrew Morton of Open Source Development Labs. This increased speed is accomplished by minimizing the disk head movement during concurrent reads. "

Comments

Anti-MS Patent

[mydigitalself]

ok, i know this is evil and all - but lets say MS decide to implement this as a concept (so without "stealing" code)... the linux community will have given them something and received (probably) nothing in return.

should open source initiatives be able to patent their ideas in a similar model to the way the GPL applies to their source code such that if someone implemented the IDEA, they would also have to release their version of the implementation source code.

just a thought...

Re:1,000 percent?

[babbage]

<nigel-tufnel> As long as we can all agree that Linux now goes to eleven, because that's, you know, one more. </nigel-tufnel>