Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Sat Feb 17 2007 - 13:45:33 EST


Con Kolivas wrote:
> Maintainers are far too busy off testing code for
> 16+ cpus, petabytes of disk storage and so on to try it for themselves. Plus
> they worry incessantly that my patches may harm those precious machines'
> performance...
>

But the one I like, mm-filesize_dependant_lru_cache_add.patch,
has an on-off switch.

In other words it adds an option to do things differently.
How could that possibly affect any workload if that option
isn't enabled?

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