linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

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Message-ID: <45D74D34.5020201@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:45:08 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>
CC:	michael chang <thenewme91@...il.com>,
	ck mailing list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.20-ck1

Con Kolivas wrote:
> Maintainers are far too busy off testing code for 
> 16+ cpus, petabytes of disk storage and so on to try it for themselves.  Plus 
> they worry incessantly that my patches may harm those precious machines' 
> performance... 
> 

But the one I like, mm-filesize_dependant_lru_cache_add.patch,
has an on-off switch.

In other words it adds an option to do things differently.
How could that possibly affect any workload if that option
isn't enabled?

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