Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992992AbXBQSpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993059AbXBQSpI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56617 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992992AbXBQSpG (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:06 -0500 Message-ID: <45D74D34.5020201@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:08 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: michael chang , ck mailing list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1 References: <200702162110.03355.kernel@kolivas.org> <200702171213.40718.kernel@kolivas.org> <200702171417.28376.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200702171417.28376.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 715 Lines: 19 Con Kolivas wrote: > Maintainers are far too busy off testing code for > 16+ cpus, petabytes of disk storage and so on to try it for themselves. Plus > they worry incessantly that my patches may harm those precious machines' > performance... > But the one I like, mm-filesize_dependant_lru_cache_add.patch, has an on-off switch. In other words it adds an option to do things differently. How could that possibly affect any workload if that option isn't enabled? - 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/