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

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Message-Id: <20080430183149.78d97597.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:31:49 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, 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 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> You (and Andrew) have tried to argue that slowing things down results in 
> better quality,

eh?  I argued the opposite: that increasing quality will as a side-effect
slow things down.

If we simply throttled things, people would spend more time watching the
shopping channel while merging smaller amounts of the same old crap.

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