linux-kernel - Re: Ten percent test

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:08:57 -0400
From:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>
Subject: Re: Ten percent test

On Monday 09 April 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 13:04 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> >and note that a year ago Mike did a larger patch too, not unlike his
>> >current patch - but we hoped that his smaller change would be
>> > sufficient - and nobody came along and said "i tested Mike's and the
>> > difference is significant on my system".
>>
>> May I suggest that while it may have been noticeable, it was
>> not 'significant', so we didn't sing praises and bow to mecca at the
>> time.
>
>Actually, there was practically nil interest in testing.  We made a
>couple of minor adjustments to the interactivity logic, and all went
>quiet, so I didn't think it was enough of a problem to require more
>intrusive countermeasures.
>
>	-Mike

Does one of these messages have a url so I can test the latest of your 
patches for -rc6?  Or was the one Ingo sent the most recent?

Putting that url in your sig would be nice, and might result in its 
getting a lot more exersize which should = more feedback.

-- 
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