From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:23:23 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Daniel Phillips , Ben LaHaise , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Please just remove the code instead. I don't think it buys you anything. IIRC you applied the patch introducing that logic because it gave a 25% performance increase under some write intensive loads (or something like that). Or are you telling us now that there wasn't a reason at all you applied that code to your tree in the first place? ;)) Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) -- 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/