Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267402AbTGHOrZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:47:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267401AbTGHOrY (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:47:24 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:25335 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267260AbTGHOrW (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:47:22 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16138.56467.342593.715679@charged.uio.no> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:00:35 +0200 To: Alan Cox Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, Marcelo Tosatti , hannal@us.ibm.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux FSdevel Subject: RE: [PATCH] Fastwalk: reduce cacheline bouncing of d_count (Changelog@1.1024.1.11) In-Reply-To: <1057673804.4357.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <16138.53118.777914.828030@charged.uio.no> <1057673804.4357.27.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 8) "Honest Recruiter" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no From: Trond Myklebust X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 21 >>>>> " " == Alan Cox writes: > I was a little suprised it went in, it never seemed a candidate > for dealing with a stable tree, just optimisation stuff that is > 2.5 material only As you can see, I screwed up on the title, so I may have confused you... ...but I do agree with your comment. The patch I meant to refer to (see revised title) does not appear in the 2.5.x tree either. Have we BTW been shown any numbers that support the alleged benefits? I may have missed those... Cheers, Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/