Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750715AbVKDQts (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:49:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750717AbVKDQts (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:49:48 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:54488 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750715AbVKDQtr (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:49:47 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 08:49:21 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds 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 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 18 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 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/