Re: [RFC][DATA] re "ongoing vm suckage"

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:23:23 -0300 (BRST)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Please just remove the code instead. I don't think it buys you anything.

IIRC you applied the patch introducing that logic because it
gave a 25% performance increase under some write intensive
loads (or something like that).

Or are you telling us now that there wasn't a reason at all
you applied that code to your tree in the first place? ;))

Rik

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