On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:00:44PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 19:34 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Like everything else, kernel VM performance is a tradeoff. Improvements
> may benefit certain workloads while impairing others. It's rare for
> changes to improve things for everybody - so the end result is a
> judgement call, generally by the people who are assumed to know what
> they're doing.
No, it is not a judgement call. Hard performance measurements are not
subjective.
We developers are not sheep, and this is not a closed proprietary
project. We expect our experts to show their work.
Choosing the workloads that are important is a judgement call.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org