John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Nitin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> - Links to more performance numbers, use cases can be found at: >>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/17/116 >>> The sole, whole, entire point of this patchset is performance. Yet >>> after chasing a few scruffy links, the only data we have to justify >>> merging _any_ of this stuff is, and I quote, > > FYI, I disagree with this. AFAICT from the point of view of the Ubuntu project > the "sole, whole, entire point" of this patchset is "to lower memory > requirements in various [diskless] setups.", e.g. LiveCDs and LTSP. > https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Compcache >
Looks like simply a better justification could have landed it in mainline :) Nitin _______________________________________________ linux-mm-cc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/linux-mm-cc
