Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-10 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Saturday 10 February 2007, schreef Randy Dunlap: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:35:51 -0500 Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I have an email sitting in my drafts folder stating that I'll no longer > > > accept any features unless they've been publically reviewed in detail > > > and r

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:35:51 -0500 Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > I have an email sitting in my drafts folder stating that I'll no longer > > accept any features unless they've been publically reviewed in detail and > > run-time tested by a third party. The idea being to force peo

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Andrew Morton wrote: > I have an email sitting in my drafts folder stating that I'll no longer > accept any features unless they've been publically reviewed in detail and > run-time tested by a third party. The idea being to force people to spend > more time reviewing and testing each other's stuf

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Con Kolivas
On Saturday 10 February 2007 07:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:13:03 +0100 > > jos poortvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nick's comment, replying to me some time ago: > > I think I was thinking of this: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/509 Fortunately that predates a

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:13:03 +0100 jos poortvliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick's comment, replying to me some time ago: I think I was thinking of this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/509 > Is there > something fundamentally wrong with the kernel-hackers-culture, or are these > inc

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread jos poortvliet
Op Friday 09 February 2007, schreef Con Kolivas: > On Saturday 10 February 2007 00:13, jos poortvliet wrote: > > Nobody has said anything about costs, indeed. Now afaik, swap prefetch is > > designed to have no/as little as possible costs, so that makes sense. > > Does it have to have some bugs, wh

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Con Kolivas
On Saturday 10 February 2007 00:13, jos poortvliet wrote: > > > > Hold. > > > > > > Why hold? > > > > > > It's been shown this patchset really helps desktop users. > > > > Has it? I don't think I've ever observed any benefits from it and I > > don't think anyone has ever got down and worked out wh

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread Con Kolivas
On Saturday 10 February 2007 00:13, jos poortvliet wrote: > Nobody has said anything about costs, indeed. Now afaik, swap prefetch is > designed to have no/as little as possible costs, so that makes sense. Does > it have to have some bugs, which have to be adressed, before it can enter? > I'm sure

Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans

2007-02-09 Thread jos poortvliet
> > > Hold. > > Why hold? > > > It's been shown this patchset really helps desktop users. > > Has it? I don't think I've ever observed any benefits from it and I don't > think anyone has ever got down and worked out what its drawbacks might be, > and seen if they can be demonstrated in practice.