Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:01:41 -0700 "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, what do I measure to make this an objective problem report?

Ideal would be to find a reproducible-by-others testcase which does what you
believe to be the wrong thing.

> And if
> I do that (and it shows a positive result), will that be good enough
> to argue for inclusion?

That depends upon whether there are more suitable ways of fixing "the
wrong thing".

There may not be - it could well be that present behaviour
is correct for the testcase, but it leaves the system in the wrong
state for your large workload shift.  In that case, prefetching (ie:
restoring system state approximately to that which prevailed prior to
"testcase") might well be a suitable fix.
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