Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:52:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) |
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Also, I think the jury (ie Andrew) is still out on whether rmap is worth > > it. > > One problem we're running into here is that there are absolutely > no tools to measure some of the things rmap is supposed to fix, > like page replacement.
Read up on positivism.
"If it can't be measured, it doesn't exist".
The point being that there are things we can measure, and until anything else comes around, those are the things that will have to guide us.
Linus
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