Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755172AbXJJCWy (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:22:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751983AbXJJCWp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:22:45 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47954 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbXJJCWp (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:22:45 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 19:22:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nick Piggin cc: Hugh Dickins , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: remove zero_page (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) In-Reply-To: <200710091931.51564.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Message-ID: References: <20071001142222.fcaa8d57.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200710090117.47610.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200710091931.51564.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> 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: 1277 Lines: 32 On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Where do you suggest I go from here? Is there any way I can > convince you to try it? Make it a config option? (just kidding) No, I'll take the damn patch, but quite frankly, I think your arguments suck. I've told you so before, and asked for numbers, and all you do is handwave. And this is like the *third*time*, and you don't even seem to admit that you're handwaving. So let's do it, but dammit: - make sure there aren't any invalid statements like this in the final commit message. - if somebody shows that you were wrong, and points to a real load, please never *ever* make excuses for this again, ok? Is that a deal? I hope we'll never need to hear about this again, but I really object to the way you've tried to "sell" this thing, by basically starting out dishonest about what the problem was, and even now I've yet to see a *single* performance number even though I've asked for them (except for the problem case, which was introduced by *you*) 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/