Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:06:23 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Shantanu Goel <sgoel01@yahoo.com>
Cc: Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [VM PATCH] Faster reclamation of dirty pages and unused inode/dcache entries in 2.4.22
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 10:55:44AM -0700, Shantanu Goel wrote:
> I am not very knowledgeable about micro-optimizations.
>  I'll take your word for it. ;-)  What interests me
> more is whether others notice any performance
> improvement under swapout with this patch given that
> is on the order of milliseconds.

But have you compared your patch with the VM patches in -aa?  Will your
patch apply on -aa and make improvements there too?

In other words: Why would I want to use this patch when I could use -aa?

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