From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3D2C9900.EF65CE2E@zip.com.au> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:28:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three References: <3D2C9288.51BBE4EB@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > > ... > Any way out of this chicken&egg situation ? Well yes. We can say "this is a sound design, and we believe we can make it work well. Let's merge it and get going on it". That's perfectly legitimate and sensible. But it would be better to not have to go this route just through lack of tools or effort. Probably, this is what we'll end up doing :( But we'll be much, much better off long term if we have those tests. How do the BSD and proprietary kernel developers evaluate their VMs? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/