From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Daniel Phillips Subject: Re: [PATCH] Optimize out pte_chain take three Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 15:55:32 +0200 References: <20810000.1026311617@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <20020713133058.GU23693@holomorphy.com> In-Reply-To: <20020713133058.GU23693@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Andrew Morton , Rik van Riel , Dave McCracken , Linux Memory Management , rwhron@earthlink.net List-ID: On Saturday 13 July 2002 15:30, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:22:28PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > See "enables" above. Though I agree we want the thing at parity or > > better on its own merits, I don't see the point of throwing tomatoes at > > the "enables" points. Recommendation: separate the list into "improves" > > and "enables". > > The direction has been set and I'm following it. These things are now > off the roadmap entirely regardless, or at least I won't pursue them > until the things needing to be done now are addressed. > Say, we could use a number of helpers with the quantitative measurement > effort, Is there any chance you could help out here as well? Forget it :-) I'll help with the test design. We have a bunch of people ready to do the work on the actual benchmarking. We need to provide precise statements of the test model, and put out a call for testers. I'll help with that too. > It'd certainly help get the cost/benefit analysis of rmap going for the > merge, and maybe even pinpoint things needing to be addressed. -- Daniel -- 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/