linux-kernel - Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:47:56 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Matthew Hawkins <darthmdh@...il.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Eric St-Laurent <ericstl34@...patico.ca>,
	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:19 +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
> > Not to say that neither fix some problems, but for such conceptually
> > big changes, it should take a little more effort than a constructed test
> > case and no consideration of the alternatives to get it merged.
> 
> Swap Prefetch has existed since September 5, 2005.  Please Nick,
> enlighten us all with your "alternatives" which have been offered (in
> practical, not theoretical form) in the past 23 months, along with
> their non-constructed benchmarks proving their case and the hordes of
> happy users and kernel developers who have tested them out the wazoo
> and given their backing.  Or just take a nice steaming jug of STFU.

Heh.  Here we have a VM developer expressing his interest in the problem
space, and you offer him a steaming jug of STFU because he doesn't say
what you want to hear.  I wonder how many killfiles you just entered.

	-Mike

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