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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, shai@scalex86.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] [patch] mm: zone_reclaim fix for pseudo file systems
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:18:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070730231806.da72a7ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707302300090.874@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> > OK, plausible.  But where's the *proof*?  We probably already have 
> > sufficient statistics to be able to prove this.
> 
> Rik has shown this repeatedly.

url?

> You want metaphysical certainty?

I want sufficient analysis of this particular problem to know that
we're fixing the right thing, and in the most appropriate fashion.

As is usual when a bug report starts with the text "patch", this
is like pulling teeth.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31  6:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27 23:27 Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-30 18:12 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-30 20:23 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-30 20:31   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-30 21:12     ` Lee Schermerhorn
2007-07-31  0:01   ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-31  0:20     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  0:27       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  1:06         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  1:52           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  1:56         ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-31  2:01           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  2:27             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  2:36               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  4:47                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  5:00                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  5:17                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  5:33                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  5:58                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  6:09                           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  6:18                             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-07-31 19:35                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31 19:46                                 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31 19:50                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  8:27                           ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-31  8:35                             ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31 19:30                               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31 19:20                             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  7:15                     ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-31 19:18                       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  1:36       ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2007-07-31  1:53         ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-31  1:56           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-07-31  2:19 ` Christoph Lameter

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