pipe bandwidth 75% higher on 2.2 than recent 2.[45]

LMbench bw_pipe on uniprocessor K6/2 says pipe bandwidth is about 75% higher on 2.2.23 than other recent kernels:

kernel Pipe Bandwidth MB/sec
------------------ -------
2.2.23 115.62

2.4.20-rmap15b        66.90
2.4.21-pre1           67.07
2.4.21-pre2-jam2      70.23
2.4.21-pre2aa2        67.44
2.5.51-mm2            60.71
2.5.54-mm3            64.86

Some other benchmarks at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/latest.html

Randy Hron
http://home.earthlink.net/~rwhron/kernel/bigbox.html