Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [ck] Re: Swap prefetch merge plans | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2007 00:22:45 +1100 |
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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 this can be arranged, right, Con? > > Sorry if I sound sarcastic. I'm no hacker myself, and sometimes these > discussions don't make sense to me. A bit like the Staircase thingy -> > > "hi, I've got this piece of code which does the same as that piece, but > better" > "Why didn't you improve the old code?" > "This is a better design -> half the code but doing a better job" > "Well, it's not tested as much, so it won't go in. Go away!" > > There where those comments from Torvalds some time ago in an interview, > about the kernel community becoming harder to get involved with. As an > outsider, it sure seems so. I read frustrations everywhere. What about the > kevent guy, his blog: http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog > > I stumbled upon it when reading LWN. Seems pretty sad... I don't get the > technical stuff, but the frustration almost blows up your monitor. Is there > something fundamentally wrong with the kernel-hackers-culture, or are these > incidents?
I greatly appreciate the support. Truly I do.
But I do not like the direction this argument is going. Please let it go.
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