linux-kernel - Re: updatedb

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:32:10 +0200
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
CC:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Andika Triwidada <andika@...il.com>,
	Robert Deaton <false.hopes@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, B.Steinbrink@....de,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: updatedb

Rene Herman schrieb:
> On 07/27/2007 01:48 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> 
>> I believe the users who say their apps really do get paged back in
>> though, so suspect that's not the case.
> 
> Stopping the bush-circumference beating, I do not. -ck (and gentoo) have 
> this massive Calimero thing going among their users where people are much 
> less interested in technology than in how the nasty big kernel meanies are 
> keeping them down (*).

I think the problem is elsewhere. Users don't say: "My apps get paged
back in." They say: "My system is more responsive". They really don't
care *why* the reaction to a mouse click that takes three seconds with
a mainline kernel is instantaneous with -ck. Nasty big kernel meanies,
OTOH, want to understand *why* a patch helps in order to decide whether
it is really a good idea to merge it. So you've got a bunch of patches
(aka -ck) which visibly improve the overall responsiveness of a desktop
system, but apparently no one can conclusively explain why or how they
achieve that, and therefore they cannot be merged into mainline.

I don't have a solution to that dilemma either.

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Tilman Schmidt                    E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
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