From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:49:21 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 In-Reply-To: <20051104161420.9CFA8184631@thermo.lanl.gov> Message-ID: References: <20051104161420.9CFA8184631@thermo.lanl.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andy Nelson Cc: akpm@osdl.org, arjan@infradead.org, arjanv@infradead.org, haveblue@us.ibm.com, kravetz@us.ibm.com, lhms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mbligh@mbligh.org, mel@csn.ul.ie, mingo@elte.hu, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au List-ID: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andy Nelson wrote: > > My measurements of factors of 3-4 on more than one hw arch don't > mean anything then? When I _know_ that modern hardware does what you tested at least two orders of magnitude better than the hardware you tested? Think about it. Linus -- 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/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org