linux-kernel - Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

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Message-Id: <200805011259.47343.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 12:59:46 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Slow DOWN, please!!!

On Thursday, 1 of May 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > eh?  I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect
> > slow things down.
> 
> Yes, my bad, I realized that when I read through my message and already 
> sent out a fix for my buggy email ;)
> 
> > If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the
> > shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.
> 
> I agree totally. And although some of the time would probably _also_ be 
> spent on the frustrating crap that was designed to do the throttling, that 
> isn't much more productive than watching the shopping channel would be ...

Okay, so what exactly are we going to do to address the issue that I described
in the part of my last message that you skipped?

Rafael
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