Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:03:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:03:02 -0500 Received: from sydney1.au.ibm.com ([202.135.142.193]:22539 "EHLO haven.ozlabs.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 03:02:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 19:03:06 +1100 From: Rusty Russell To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com Subject: Re: [2.4.17/18pre] VM and swap - it's really unusable Message-Id: <20020113190306.02ec6869.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3C409B2D.DB95D659@zip.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1010781207.819.27.camel@phantasy> <20020112121315.B1482@inspiron.school.suse.de> <20020112160714.A10847@planetzork.spacenet> <20020112095209.A5735@hq.fsmlabs.com> <20020112180016.T1482@inspiron.school.suse.de> <005301c19b9b$6acc61e0$0501a8c0@psuedogod> <3C409B2D.DB95D659@zip.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:23:09 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > And guess what? Nobody has tested the damn thing, so it's going > nowhere. Haven't had latency problems, to be honest. Maybe I should start playing mp3s while I code? 1) conditional_schedule? Hmmm... Why the __set_current_state? I think I prefer an explicit "if (need_schedule()) schedule()", with #define need_schedule() unlikely(current->need_resched) 2) I hate condsched.h: Use sched.h please! 3) Why this: > +#ifndef __LINUX_COMPILER_H > +#include > +#endif Other than that, I like this patch. Linus? Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - 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/